| 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) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1542 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
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
- 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
| 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 |
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2416 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 竿 【カン】 counter for poles, rods, etc.
- 竿頭 【カントウ】 top of a pole
- 一竿 【イッカン】 one pole (esp. used for fishing poles), one rod
- 三竿 【サンカン】 broad daylight
Kun reading compounds
- 竿 【さお】 rod, pole, neck (of a shamisen, etc.), shamisen, beam (i.e. the crossbar of a balance), single line (esp. as a flying formation for geese), penis, counter for flags (on poles), counter for long, thin Japanese sweets (e.g. yōkan)
- 竿姉妹 【さおしまい】 women who have had sex with the same man, pole sisters
- 殻竿 【からざお】 flail (for threshing grain)
Readings
- Korean:
- gan
Spanish
- palo
- barra
- vara
- caña
Portuguese
French
| 3369 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 3259 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2288 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 25854 | Morohashi |
| 4250 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 2632 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 2676 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 6f3.3 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-6-3 | SKIP code |
| 8840.1 | Four corner code |
| 1-20-40 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 7aff | Unicode hex code |