Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:
Variants:
kettle, cauldron, iron pot
Kun:
かま
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
1761 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 釜山 【プサン】 Busan (South Korea), Pusan
  • 釜中の魚 【フチュウノウオ】 fish in a pot about to be boiled, person who is blissfully unaware of deadly danger

Kun reading compounds

  • 釜 【かま】 iron pot, kettle
  • 釜揚げうどん 【かまあげうどん】 straight-from-the-pot udon, udon noodles pulled straight from the pot and served in the hot water used for boiling (traditionally without being soaked in cold water), eaten by dipping in sauce
  • お釜 【おかま】 pot, (volcanic) crater, buttocks, effeminate gay man, male transvestite, (preoperative) transgender woman, (gay) male prostitute
  • 一つ釜 【ひとつかま】 one or the same pot, eating or living together

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fu3
Korean:
bu

Spanish

  • caldero
  • cacerola
  • olla

Portuguese

French

1621 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2834 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1160 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1131 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2610 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1808 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
40164 Morohashi
2107 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6215 New Nelson (John Haig)
2332 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1367 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2o8.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-8 SKIP code
2-4-6 SKIP code
8010.9 Four corner code
1-19-88 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
91dc Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
Variants:
abyss, edge, deep pool, the depths
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
1593 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 淵源 【エンゲン】 origin
  • 淵酔 【エンスイ】 type of imperial banquet held during the Heian period and later, being dead drunk, being very drunk
  • 深淵 【シンエン】 abyss, ravine
  • 海淵 【カイエン】 (ocean) deep, deepest part of a trench

Kun reading compounds

  • 淵 【ふち】 deep pool, deep water, abyss, depths (e.g. of despair), grip (e.g. of death)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yuan1
Korean:
yeon

Spanish

  • abismo
  • profundidades (mar
  • río)

Portuguese

French

1538 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2625 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1858 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
732 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
547 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
17692 Morohashi
3237 New Nelson (John Haig)
2966 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2971 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3a9.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
3210.0 Four corner code
1-42-05 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6df5 Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
horse
Parts:
Variants:
station
On:
エキ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
724 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 駅 【エキ】 railway station, train station, staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan), counter for railway stations and bus stations
  • 駅員 【エキイン】 (train) station attendant, station employee, station staff
  • 宿駅 【シュクエキ】 relay station, post station, stage
  • 終着駅 【シュウチャクエキ】 terminal station

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yi4
Korean:
yeog

Spanish

  • estación

Portuguese

  • estação

French

  • gare
158 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
253 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
233 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
384 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5199 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
189 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
101 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2172 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.12 Japanese for Busy People
284 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
284 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
56 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1915 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2292 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1184 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1618 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2003 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
44633P Morohashi
1822 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6735 New Nelson (John Haig)
1984 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2138 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
426 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3462 2001 Kanji
10a4.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-10-4 SKIP code
7738.7 Four corner code
1-17-56 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
99c5 Unicode hex code