Jisho

×

13 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:
广
Variants:
mineral, ore
Kun:
あらがね
On:
コウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
1376 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鉱区 【コウク】 mining area, mine lot
  • 鉱業 【コウギョウ】 mining industry
  • 廃坑 【ハイコウ】 closure of a mine, abandoned mine, disused mine
  • 採鉱 【サイコウ】 mining

Kun reading compounds

  • 粗金 【あらがね】 ore

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kuang4
Korean:
gwang

Spanish

  • mineral

Portuguese

  • mineral
  • minerar

French

  • minéral
  • minerai
610 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
700 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
674 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1029 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4843 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
532 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
977 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2153 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1604 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1711 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
876 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1813 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2145 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1124 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1525 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
749 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
40340P Morohashi
1709 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6252 New Nelson (John Haig)
741 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
802 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
774 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2871 2001 Kanji
8a5.15 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-5 SKIP code
8013.2 Four corner code
1-25-59 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9271 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
cart, car
Parts:
car
Kun:
くるま
On:
シャ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
333 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 車 【シャ】 car, vehicle, van, truck, wagon, lorry, (train) car, carriage
  • 車検 【シャケン】 vehicle inspection
  • 軽自動車 【ケイジドウシャ】 light motor vehicle (up to 660cc and 64bhp), k-car, kei car
  • 台車 【ダイシャ】 platform truck, hand truck, trolley, dolly, cart, truck, bogie

Kun reading compounds

  • 車 【くるま】 car, automobile, vehicle, wheel, castor, caster
  • 車椅子 【くるまいす】 wheelchair
  • 火の車 【ひのくるま】 fiery chariot (that carries the souls of sinners into hell), desperate financial situation, dire straits

Readings

Japanese names:
くら、 くろま
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
che1, ju1
Korean:
cha, geo

Spanish

  • coche
  • vehículo
  • rueda

Portuguese

  • carro

French

  • véhicule
  • voiture
88 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
63 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
31 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
162 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4608 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
54 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
91 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
532 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.2 Japanese for Busy People
133 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
133 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
62 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1769 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4367 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2212 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2976 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
292 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38172 Morohashi
3552 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5939 New Nelson (John Haig)
286 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
304 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
231 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
64 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1555 2001 Kanji
7c0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-7-3 SKIP code
5000.6 Four corner code
1-28-54 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8eca Unicode hex code