Jisho

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15 strokes
Radical:
cart, car
Parts:
wheel, ring, circle, link, loop, counter for wheels and flowers
Kun:
On:
リン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
693 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 輪 【リン】 counter for wheels and flowers
  • 輪郭 【リンカク】 contour, outline, silhouette, summary, outline, sketch, looks, features
  • 三輪 【サンリン】 three wheels
  • 競輪 【ケイリン】 keirin, cycle racing event, usu. 2 km with a paced start and sprint finish

Kun reading compounds

  • 輪 【わ】 ring, circle, loop, hoop, wheel, circle (e.g. of friends), planetary ring
  • 輪切り 【わぎり】 cutting in round slices, round slice, dividing into groups (e.g. by ability)
  • 埴輪 【はにわ】 haniwa, hollow unglazed terracotta figure from the Kofun period
  • 後輪 【こうりん】 rear wheel, cantle

Readings

Japanese names:
なわ、 も
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lun2
Korean:
ryun

Spanish

  • rueda
  • anillo
  • círculo
  • eslabón
  • contador de flores
  • aro

Portuguese

  • roda
  • argola
  • círculo
  • elo
  • laço
  • comtador para rodas e flores

French

  • roue
  • anneau
  • cercle
  • maillon
  • boucle
  • compteur de roues ou fleurs
533 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
631 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
601 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
959 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4630 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
846 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
942 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2316 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1164 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1221 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
498 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1781 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1999 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1067 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1436 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1839 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38400 Morohashi
1589 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5973 New Nelson (John Haig)
1822 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1963 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
630 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1553 2001 Kanji
7c8.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-8 SKIP code
5802.7 Four corner code
1-46-56 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8f2a Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
sign 示 (礻)
Parts:
Variants:
calamity, misfortune, evil, curse
Kun:
わざわい
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2010 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 禍 【カ】 disaster, calamity, misfortune
  • 禍根 【カコン】 root of an evil, source of a problem, source of trouble, cause of misfortune
  • コロナ禍 【コロナカ】 COVID-19 pandemic, coronavirus crisis, COVID-19 crisis
  • 惨禍 【サンカ】 calamity, disaster, catastrophe

Kun reading compounds

  • 災い 【わざわい】 disaster, calamity, misfortune, trouble, woes
  • 災いする 【わざわいする】 to be one's ruin, to do harm, to cause trouble, to have negative consequences, to bring about a bad outcome

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
huo4
Korean:
hwa

Spanish

  • calamidad
  • desgracia
  • infortunio

Portuguese

  • calamidade
  • desgraça
  • mal
  • maldição

French

  • calamité
  • malchance
  • mal
  • malédiction
1051 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1753 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3254 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1756 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1581 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1885 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1809 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1948 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1543 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1425 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1304 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
706 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
945 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1300 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
24766P Morohashi
1030 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4102 New Nelson (John Haig)
1291 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1386 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1653 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
649 2001 Kanji
4e9.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-9 SKIP code
3722.7 Four corner code
1-18-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
798d Unicode hex code