Jisho

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7 strokes (also 6)
Radical:
walk 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)
Parts:
welcome, meet, greet
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N3
625 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 迎賓館 【ゲイヒンカン】 reception hall (esp. for visiting state dignitaries), guest house, State Guest House (esp. Akasaka palace, also guest house in Kyoto)
  • 迎撃 【ゲイゲキ】 intercept, interception, counter-attack
  • 奉迎 【ホウゲイ】 welcome
  • 盛んな歓迎 【サカンナカンゲイ】 cordial reception

Kun reading compounds

  • 迎える 【むかえる】 to go out to meet, to receive, to welcome, to greet, to salute, to hail, to call for, to summon, to invite, to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family), to take (e.g. a wife), to reach (a certain time, a point in one's life, etc.), to enter (a new phase, new era, etc.), to approach (e.g. death)

Readings

Japanese names:
むかえ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ying2
Korean:
yeong

Spanish

  • bienvenida
  • recibir
  • ir a recibir

Portuguese

  • receber bem
  • reunião
  • saudar

French

  • accueil
  • rencontrer
  • saluer
1207 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
726 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4669 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1062 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
949 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
746 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1055 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1098 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1133 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
680 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3796 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1939 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2632 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1717 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38748P Morohashi
3059 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6019 New Nelson (John Haig)
1702 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1837 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1145 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2644 2001 Kanji
2q4.4 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-4 SKIP code
3730.2 Four corner code
1-23-62 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8fce Unicode hex code

2 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
person
Kun:
ひと-り-と
On:
ジンニン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
5 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 人 【ジン】 -ian (e.g. Italian), -ite (e.g. Tokyoite), -er (e.g. performer, etc.), person working with ..., man, person, people
  • 人為 【ジンイ】 human work, human agency, art, artificiality
  • 米人 【ベイジン】 American person
  • 俳人 【ハイジン】 haiku poet
  • 人 【ニン】 counter for people
  • 人気 【ニンキ】 popularity, public favor, condition (e.g. market), tone, character, nature
  • 同人 【ドウジン】 same person, said person, the person in question, coterie, clique, fraternity, kindred spirits, comrade, colleague, dōjin, doujin, Japanese fans or hobbyists who produce their own magazines, manga, software, etc.
  • 代人 【ダイニン】 substitute, deputy, proxy, representative, agent

Kun reading compounds

  • 人 【ひと】 person, someone, somebody, human beings, mankind, man, people, humans, human (Homo sapiens), (other) people, others, character, personality, nature, capable person, competent person, suitable person, right person, adult, grown-up, I, me, one
  • 人一倍 【ひといちばい】 (much) more than others, exceedingly, extremely, unusually
  • 貴人 【きじん】 aristocrat, nobleman, dignitary, person of high rank
  • いい人 【いいひと】 good-natured person, good person, (one's) lover, boyfriend, girlfriend

Readings

Japanese names:
じ、 と、 ね、 ひこ、 ふみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ren2
Korean:
in

Spanish

  • persona

Portuguese

  • pessoa

French

  • être humain
  • personne
30 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
39 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
39 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
9 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
339 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
11 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
14 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.5 Japanese for Busy People
1 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
15 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
42 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4175 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2111 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2857 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
960 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
344 Morohashi
3368 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
99 New Nelson (John Haig)
951 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1023 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
7 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1262 2001 Kanji
2a0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-2-4 SKIP code
8000.0 Four corner code
1-31-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4eba Unicode hex code