Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:
Variants:
lead
Kun:
なまり
On:
エン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1710 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鉛筆 【エンピツ】 pencil
  • 鉛管 【エンカン】 lead pipe
  • 黒鉛 【コクエン】 graphite
  • 硫化亜鉛 【リュウカアエン】 zinc sulfide (ZnS) (sulphide)

Kun reading compounds

  • 鉛 【なまり】 lead (Pb)
  • 鉛色 【なまりいろ】 lead colour, lead color
  • アジ化鉛 【アジかなまり】 lead azide
  • 一酸化鉛 【いっさんかなまり】 lead monoxide, lead(II) oxide

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qian1, yan2
Korean:
yeon

Spanish

  • plomo

Portuguese

  • primazia

French

  • plomb
1029 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1681 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4842 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1109 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1845 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1944 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1606 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1713 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1339 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1812 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2143 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1122 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1523 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
802 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
40310 Morohashi
1707 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6251 New Nelson (John Haig)
794 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
857 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1680 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2877 2001 Kanji
8a5.14 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-5 SKIP code
8816.0 Four corner code
1-17-84 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
925b Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
rice
Parts:
flour, powder, dust
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
1484 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 粉末 【フンマツ】 fine powder
  • 粉飾 【フンショク】 embellishment (e.g. of a story), ornamentation, decoration, putting on makeup
  • 米粉 【コメコ】 rice flour
  • 製粉 【セイフン】 milling, grinding into flour

Kun reading compounds

  • 粉 【デシメートル】 decimetre, decimeter
  • 粉 【こな】 flour, meal, powder, dust
  • 粉ミルク 【こなミルク】 milk powder, baby formula, infant formula, formula, baby milk
  • 火の粉 【ひのこ】 sparks
  • 薄力粉 【はくりきこ】 cake flour, pastry flour
  • 粉 【こな】 flour, meal, powder, dust
  • 粉ミルク 【こなミルク】 milk powder, baby formula, infant formula, formula, baby milk

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fen3
Korean:
bun

Spanish

  • harina
  • polvo

Portuguese

  • farinha
  • poeira

French

  • farine
  • poudre
  • poussière
507 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
605 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
577 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1152 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3469 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
793 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
804 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1133 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1701 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1817 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1557 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1495 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1643 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
869 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1186 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
929 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
26872 Morohashi
1291 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4390 New Nelson (John Haig)
920 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
988 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
556 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1045 2001 Kanji
6b4.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-4 SKIP code
9892.7 Four corner code
1-42-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7c89 Unicode hex code