Jisho

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遥

12 strokes (also 11)
Radical:
walk 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)
Parts:
込 干 凵 爪
Variants:
遙
far off, distant, long ago
Kun:
はる.か
On:
ヨウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2376 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 遥遠 【ヨウエン】 far away, very far off, remote
  • 遥任 【ヨウニン】 absentee appointment to a distant administrative post (Nara and Heian periods)
  • 逍遥 【ショウヨウ】 ramble, saunter, walk, wander, stroll

Kun reading compounds

  • 遥か 【はるか】 far away, far off, far, distant, in the distance, long ago, long before
  • 遥か彼方 【はるかかなた】 faraway, far-off

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yao2
Korean:
yo

Spanish

  • muy lejos
  • distante
  • caminar despreocupadamente

Portuguese

French

2248 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3895 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2007 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2708 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
3141 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6075 New Nelson (John Haig)
2418 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2498 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2q10.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-9 SKIP code
3230.7 Four corner code
3730.7 Four corner code
1-45-58 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9065 Unicode hex code

我

7 strokes
Radical:
spear, halberd 戈
Parts:
亅 手 戈
ego, I, selfish, our, oneself
Kun:
われ、 わ、 わ.が-、 わが-
On:
ガ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N1
829 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 我 【ガ】 obstinacy, atman, the self, the ego
  • 我慢 【ガマン】 endurance, patience, perseverance, bearing (with something), self-control, self-restraint
  • 無我 【ムガ】 selflessness, self-effacement, self-renunciation, anatta, anatman, doctrine that states that humans do not possess souls
  • 小我 【ショウガ】 the self, the ego

Kun reading compounds

  • 我 【われ】 I, me, oneself, you, prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
  • 我々 【われわれ】 we
  • 人は人、我は我 【ひとはひと、われはわれ】 live and let live, you do you and I'll do me, people are people; I am myself
  • 我 【われ】 I, me, oneself, you, prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
  • 我が 【わが】 my, our, one's own

Readings

Japanese names:
あ、 あが、 か
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wo3
Korean:
a

Spanish

  • yo
  • uno mismo
  • ego

Portuguese

  • ego
  • Eu
  • egoísta
  • nosso
  • a si próprio

French

  • ego
  • je
  • moi
  • égoïste
  • notre
  • soi-même
745 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
833 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
817 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1392 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
200 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
719 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1329 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
545 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1302 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1381 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1164 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
837 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4362 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2208 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2971 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
647 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11545 Morohashi
3548 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2028 New Nelson (John Haig)
640 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
690 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
380 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
848 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2259 2001 Kanji
0a7.10 The Kanji Dictionary
4-7-3 SKIP code
4-7-4 SKIP code
2355.0 Four corner code
1-18-70 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6211 Unicode hex code

子

3 strokes
Radical:
child, seed 子
Parts:
子
child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Kun:
こ、 -こ、 ね
On:
シ、 ス、 ツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
72 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 子 【シ】 child (esp. a boy), viscount, founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius), master, masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature), you, -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
  • 子宮 【シキュウ】 womb, uterus
  • 中性子 【チュウセイシ】 neutron
  • 精子 【セイシ】 sperm, spermatozoon
  • 主 【ス】 honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name
  • 恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
  • 久留子 【クルス】 cross sign
  • 対子 【トイツ】 pair, eyes
  • 七対子 【チートイツ】 seven pairs, winning hand composed of seven pairs

Kun reading compounds

  • 子 【こ】 child, kid, teenager, youngster, young (non-adult) person, (one's) child, offspring, young woman, young (animal), offshoot, interest, new share, player who is not a dealer, young geisha, young prostitute, bird egg, -er (often of young women)
  • 子 【こう】 child, interest
  • 根っこ 【ねっこ】 root (of a plant), stump (of a tree), root (of a problem, etc.), base, foundation, origin, source
  • 江戸っ子 【えどっこ】 (true) Tokyoite, Edoite, Tokyo native, Edokko
  • 子 【ね】 the Rat (first sign of the Chinese zodiac), hour of the Rat (around midnight, 11pm to 1am, or 12 midnight to 2am), north, eleventh month of the lunar calendar
  • 子忌み 【ねいみ】 collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the Rat of the New Year)
  • 庚子 【かのえね】 Metal Rat (37th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1960, 2020, 2080)
  • 甲子 【きのえね】 Wood Rat (1st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)

Readings

Japanese names:
い、 き、 ぎ、 く、 け、 ねっ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi3, zi2, zi5
Korean:
ja

Spanish

  • chiquillo
  • niño

Portuguese

  • criança

French

  • enfant
  • signe de la 1ère branche terrestre
  • signe du Rat (zodiaque)
  • 23 h à 01 h
  • Nord (0°)
31 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
40 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
25 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
56 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1264 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
61 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
43 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
38 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.18 Japanese for Busy People
103 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
103 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
69 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
455 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4196 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2125 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2872 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
96 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6930 Morohashi
3390 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1281 New Nelson (John Haig)
95 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
99 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
42 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
18 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3547 2001 Kanji
2c0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-1 SKIP code
4-2-1 SKIP code
1740.7 Four corner code
1-27-50 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b50 Unicode hex code