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

6 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
Variants:
thread
Kun:
いと
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N2
1488 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 糸 【シ】 thread, 0.0001, one ten-thousandth
  • 糸雨 【シウ】 drizzle, light rain, fine rain
  • 蚕糸 【サンシ】 silk thread, silk yarn
  • 金糸 【キンシ】 gold thread

Kun reading compounds

  • 糸 【いと】 thread, yarn, string
  • 糸口 【いとぐち】 beginning, start, first step, clue, lead, hint, thread end
  • 横糸 【よこいと】 weft, woof (crosswise threads on a loom)
  • 生糸 【きいと】 raw silk thread

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mi4
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • hilo
  • hebra
  • cuerda

Portuguese

  • contexto

French

  • fil
83 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
75 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
27 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
699 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3492 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
113 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
807 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
720 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
242 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
242 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
409 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1503 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2703 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1379 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1866 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1345 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27221 Morohashi
2179 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4431 New Nelson (John Haig)
1333 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1431 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
58 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2741 2001 Kanji
6a0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-3 SKIP code
4-6-4 SKIP code
2290.3 Four corner code
2090.3 Four corner code
1-27-69 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7cf8 Unicode hex code