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

6 strokes
Radical:
boat
Parts:
boat, ship
Kun:
ふねふな--ぶね
On:
シュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1786 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 舟艇 【シュウテイ】 boat, watercraft
  • 舟橋 【フナバシ】 pontoon bridge
  • 軽舟 【ケイシュウ】 light boat, skiff
  • 同舟 【ドウシュウ】 shipmates, fellow passengers

Kun reading compounds

  • 船 【ふね】 ship, boat, watercraft, vessel, seaplane, tank, tub, vat, trough, counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)
  • 船貝 【ふねがい】 Arca avellana (species of ark shell)
  • 釣り船 【つりぶね】 fishing boat, boat-shaped hanging flower vase
  • 浮舟 【うきふね】 floating boat

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhou1
Korean:
ju

Spanish

  • bote
  • barco

Portuguese

  • barco
  • nave
  • navio

French

  • bateau
  • vaisseau
1354 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1334 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3863 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
968 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
857 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
339 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1094 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1145 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
646 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1592 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4353 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2203 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2965 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1886 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30350 Morohashi
3538 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4927 New Nelson (John Haig)
1868 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2012 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1087 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
848 2001 Kanji
6c0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-4 SKIP code
2744.0 Four corner code
1-29-14 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
821f Unicode hex code