Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
cart, car
Parts:
Variants:
lightly, trifling, unimportant
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
790 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 軽 【ケイ】 light (e.g. aircraft, truck), light motor vehicle (up to 660cc and 64bhp), kei car
  • 軽快 【ケイカイ】 light (of movements), nimble, sprightly, springy, light-hearted, cheerful, buoyant, jaunty, casual (e.g. clothing), rhythmical (e.g. melody), taking a turn for the better (of an illness), receding of symptoms, recovery, convalescence
  • 軽々 【ケイケイ】 indiscreetly, thoughtlessly, carelessly, frivolously
  • 酌量減軽 【シャクリョウゲンケイ】 reduction of punishment in the light of extenuating circumstances
  • 軽忽 【キョウコツ】 indiscreet, thoughtless, absurd, laughable, disdaining, belittling
  • 常不軽 【ジョウフキョウ】 Sadaparibhuta (bodhisattva)
  • 剽軽 【ヒョウキン】 facetious, droll, funny

Kun reading compounds

  • 軽い 【かるい】 light (i.e. not heavy), feeling light (i.e. offering little resistance, moving easily), light (i.e. of foot), effortless, nimble, agile, non-serious, minor, unimportant, trivial, slight, small, gentle, soft, easy, lighthearted (e.g. joke), easy, simple, indiscriminate
  • 軽石 【かるいし】 pumice stone
  • 軽やか 【かろやか】 light, easy, non-serious, minor
  • 軽んじる 【かろんじる】 to look down on, to make light of

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qing1
Korean:
gyeong

Spanish

  • ligero
  • insignificante
  • poco serio
  • fácil

Portuguese

  • ligeiramente
  • insignificante
  • sem importância

French

  • léger
  • insignifiant
  • sans importance
387 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
287 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
269 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
650 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4620 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
598 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
258 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1657 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
547 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
556 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
116 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1775 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1909 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1015 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1372 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
724 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38281 Morohashi
1515 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5953 New Nelson (John Haig)
717 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
774 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
395 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1572 2001 Kanji
7c5.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-5 SKIP code
5701.4 Four corner code
1-23-58 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8efd Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
Variants:
scorn, despise, make light of, contempt
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2004 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 侮 【ブ】 (something) despised, (something) made light of
  • 侮辱 【ブジョク】 insult, affront, slight, contempt (e.g. of court)
  • 軽侮 【ケイブ】 contempt, scorn

Kun reading compounds

  • 侮る 【あなどる】 to disdain, to look down on, to make light of, to hold in contempt, to scorn, to despise
  • 侮る 【あなどる】 to disdain, to look down on, to make light of, to hold in contempt, to scorn, to despise

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wu3
Korean:
mo

Spanish

  • desprecio
  • menosprecio
  • despreciar
  • menospreciar

Portuguese

  • desdém
  • desprezo
  • desprezar

French

  • mépriser
  • dédaigner
  • prendre à la légère
  • irrespect
1760 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1900 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
421 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1212 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1047 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1736 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1858 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1801 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
91 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
91 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
59 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
63 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
998 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
629P Morohashi
82 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
187 New Nelson (John Haig)
989 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1064 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1151 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2147 2001 Kanji
2a6.20 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-6 SKIP code
2825.7 Four corner code
1-41-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4fae Unicode hex code