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

11 strokes
Radical:
tile
Parts:
bottle, vial, jar, jug, vat, urn
Kun:
かめへい
On:
ビン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1528 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 瓶 【ビン】 bottle, jar, decanter, flagon, phial, vial
  • 瓶詰め 【ビンヅメ】 bottling, bottled
  • 火炎瓶 【カエンビン】 Molotov cocktail, petrol bomb, gasoline bomb
  • 水瓶 【スイビョウ】 portable water vessel (for drinking or washing up)

Kun reading compounds

  • 甕 【かめ】 earthenware pot
  • 瓶覗 【かめのぞき】 faint indigo blue (traditional Japanese color name)
  • 瓶 【へい】 jar or vase with a long narrow neck
  • 瓶子 【へいじ】 earthenware pot (used as a decanter), jar, jug
  • 大瓶 【たいへい】 large earthenware pot
  • 酒瓶 【さかびん】 sake bottle

Readings

Japanese names:
べ、 ぺ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ping2
Korean:
byeong

Spanish

  • botella
  • frasco
  • jarra
  • urna
  • tarro

Portuguese

  • Vaso de flores
  • garrafa
  • garrafinha
  • jarro
  • barril
  • cântaro

French

  • pot de fleurs
  • fiole
  • pot
  • pichet
  • cuve
  • urne
1747 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1665 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2984 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1538 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1388 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1161 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1217 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1822 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1324 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1702 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
908 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1231 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1041 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
21486 Morohashi
1344 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3699 New Nelson (John Haig)
1032 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1109 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1464 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
956 2001 Kanji
2o9.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-5 SKIP code
8141.7 Four corner code
1-41-51 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
74f6 Unicode hex code