Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:
angling, fish, catch, allure, ensnare
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1542 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 釣果 【チョウカ】 catch (fishing), amount of fish caught, caught fish
  • 釣菌 【チョウキン】 extracting bacteria (from a petri dish, etc.)
  • 爆釣 【バクチョウ】 big catch (of fish), big haul

Kun reading compounds

  • 釣る 【つる】 to fish, to angle, to catch, to lure in, to tempt, to attract, to entice, to allure
  • 釣瓶 【つるべ】 well bucket
  • 釣り 【つり】 fishing, angling, change (for a purchase), clickbaiting, trolling, bait, making deliberately inflammatory posts online
  • 釣り合い 【つりあい】 balance, equilibrium
  • 雪釣り 【ゆきつり】 game in which children use a piece of charcoal on a string to create and lift up snowballs
  • 雪吊り 【ゆきづり】 placing ropes or wires around trees to protect them from the snow, ropes stretched from the top of a tree to the lower branches to prevent their breaking under heavy snow

Readings

Japanese names:
つり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
diao4
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • pescar con caña
  • colgar
  • cambio (dinero)

Portuguese

  • pesca
  • peixe
  • pegar
  • fascinação
  • laçar

French

  • rendre la monnaie
  • pêche à la ligne
  • attraper
  • attirer
  • capturer
1592 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1225 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4820 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1836 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1843 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1416 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1862 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2020 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1335 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1810 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2108 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1098 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1496 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
279 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
40172X Morohashi
1674 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6224 New Nelson (John Haig)
273 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
291 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1495 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2852 2001 Kanji
8a3.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-3 SKIP code
8712.0 Four corner code
1-36-64 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
91e3 Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
big, very
Parts:
plump, thick, big around
Kun:
ふと.いふと.る
On:
タイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N3
552 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 大山 【タイザン】 great mountain, large mountain
  • 太鼓 【タイコ】 drum
  • 太太 【タイタイ】 wife
  • 馬太 【マタイ】 Matthew (the Apostle)
  • 大山 【タイザン】 great mountain, large mountain
  • 太鼓 【タイコ】 drum
  • 羽太 【ハタ】 sea basses, groupers
  • 赤羽太 【アカハタ】 blacktip grouper (species of fish, Epinephelus fasciatus)

Kun reading compounds

  • 太い 【ふとい】 fat, thick, deep (of a voice), thick, sonorous, daring, shameless, brazen, audacious
  • 太藺 【ふとい】 softstem bulrush (Scirpus tabernaemontani)
  • 太る 【ふとる】 to put on weight, to gain weight, to grow fat, to get stout

Readings

Japanese names:
おお、 たか、 ひろ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tai4
Korean:
tae

Spanish

  • grande
  • gordo
  • grueso
  • engordar

Portuguese

  • gordo
  • grande
  • espesso

French

  • gras
  • dodu
  • gros
269 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
181 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
164 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
343 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1172 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
508 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
151 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
105 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
629 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
639 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
124 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
409 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2673 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1360 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1846 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
121 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5834 Morohashi
2152 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1137 New Nelson (John Haig)
120 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
126 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
257 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
98 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1463 2001 Kanji
0a4.18 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-1 SKIP code
4-4-4 SKIP code
4003.0 Four corner code
1-34-32 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
592a Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
drum
Parts:
Variants:
drum, beat, rouse, muster
Kun:
つづみ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1795 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鼓舞 【コブ】 encouragement, inspiration, rousing, stirring up, raising (e.g. morale)
  • 鼓動 【コドウ】 beat, palpitation, pulsation, throbbing
  • 大太鼓 【オオダイコ】 large drum, bass drum
  • 御太鼓 【オタイコ】 very common way of tying a woman's kimono sash

Kun reading compounds

  • 鼓 【つづみ】 hand drum
  • 舌鼓 【したつづみ】 smacking one's lips (over food)
  • 大鼓 【おおつづみ】 large hand drum

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gu3
Korean:
go

Spanish

  • golpeo
  • tambor
  • animar

Portuguese

  • tambor
  • batida
  • despertar
  • inspeção (militar)

French

  • tambour
  • battement
  • encourager
  • appel (armée)
1234 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1836 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5415 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1064 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1926 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1959 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1147 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1200 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1827 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1944 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2241 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1168 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1589 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1456 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
48330 Morohashi
1786 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
7076 New Nelson (John Haig)
1444 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1552 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1692 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1467 2001 Kanji
3p10.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-9-4 SKIP code
4414.7 Four corner code
1-24-61 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9f13 Unicode hex code