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:
ten, complete
Parts:
Variants:
graduate, soldier, private, die
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
772 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 卒 【ソツ】 low-ranking soldier, graduation, moving on (from), outgrowing (something), low-ranking samurai (1870-1872), death (of a noble, etc.)
  • 卒業 【ソツギョウ】 graduation, completion (of a course), moving on (from), outgrowing (something), leaving (a group, company, etc.), quitting
  • 中卒 【チュウソツ】 having graduated from junior high school (as one's highest completed level of education), having completed no schooling beyond junior high school, middle school graduate
  • 大卒 【ダイソツ】 university graduate, having graduated from university

Kun reading compounds

  • 卒する 【そっする】 to die, to pass away
  • 終える 【おえる】 to finish, to graduate
  • 終わる 【おわる】 to end, to come to an end, to finish, to close, to be over, to finish, to complete, to conclude, to finish doing, to be past its (one's) prime, to be awful, to be terrible, to suck, to be hopeless

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zu2, cu4
Korean:
jeol

Spanish

  • graduación
  • soldado raso

Portuguese

  • soldado
  • particular
  • dados

French

  • fin d'études
  • soldat
  • privé
  • mourir
457 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
564 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
537 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
738 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
294 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
798 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
380 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
732 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.1 Japanese for Busy People
787 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
801 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
306 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
245 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2549 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1300 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1769 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1034 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
2740 Morohashi
2055 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
615 New Nelson (John Haig)
1025 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1102 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
509 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
455 2001 Kanji
2j6.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-6 SKIP code
2-6-2 SKIP code
0040.8 Four corner code
1-34-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5352 Unicode hex code