Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:
Variants:
iron
Kun:
くろがね
On:
テツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
672 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鉄 【テツ】 iron (Fe), steel, iron (will, discipline, lady, etc.), railway, railway enthusiast
  • 鉄製 【テッセイ】 made of iron
  • 国鉄 【コクテツ】 national railway, Japan National Railways (1949-1987)
  • 新日本製鐵 【シンニッポンセイテツ】 Nippon Steel Corporation

Kun reading compounds

  • 黒金 【くろがね】 iron

Readings

Japanese names:
けん、 てっ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tie3
Korean:
cheol

Spanish

  • hierro
  • acero

Portuguese

  • ferro

French

  • fer
283 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
374 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
353 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
327 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4844 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
242 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
976 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1948 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.1 Japanese for Busy People
312 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
312 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
147 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1814 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2147 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1126 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1527 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
854 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
40285 Morohashi
1711 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6253 New Nelson (John Haig)
846 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
909 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
449 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
422 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2863 2001 Kanji
8a5.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-5 SKIP code
8513.0 Four corner code
1-37-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9244 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
door, house 戶 (户, 戸)
Parts:
front door, title page, front page
Kun:
とびら
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1866 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 開扉 【カイヒ】 opening a door
  • 小開扉 【ショウカイヒ】 opening a door for a moment (esp. on the train, when someone's foot is stuck, etc.)

Kun reading compounds

  • 扉 【とびら】 door, gate, opening, title page
  • 扉絵 【とびらえ】 frontispiece
  • 自動扉 【じどうとびら】 automatic door
  • 前扉 【まえとびら】 front door (of a cabinet, bus, etc.), half-title (of a book), bastard title

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fei1
Korean:
bi

Spanish

  • puerta principal
  • puerta corredera

Portuguese

  • porta frontal
  • página de título
  • página frontal

French

  • porte d'entrée
  • première page
  • page de titre
1730 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1838 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1825 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1334 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1556 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1658 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1734 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
846 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2453 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1240 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1705 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1653 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11750X Morohashi
1955 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2058 New Nelson (John Haig)
1638 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1766 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1536 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3054 2001 Kanji
4m8.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-11 SKIP code
3021.1 Four corner code
1-40-66 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6249 Unicode hex code