Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:
copper
Kun:
あかがね
On:
ドウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
1505 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 銅 【ドウ】 copper (Cu), bronze (medal)
  • 銅像 【ドウゾウ】 bronze statue
  • 白銅 【ハクドウ】 nickel and copper alloy
  • 精銅 【セイドウ】 refined copper

Kun reading compounds

  • 銅 【どう】 copper (Cu), bronze (medal)
  • 銅色 【どうしょく】 bronze color, copper color

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tong2
Korean:
dong

Spanish

  • cobre

Portuguese

  • cobre

French

  • cuivre
683 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
781 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
758 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1437 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4853 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
855 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
978 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2159 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1605 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1712 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1340 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1821 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2155 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1132 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1533 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
278 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
40361 Morohashi
1721 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6266 New Nelson (John Haig)
272 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
290 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
800 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2849 2001 Kanji
8a6.12 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-6 SKIP code
8712.0 Four corner code
1-38-28 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9285 Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
spear
Parts:
halberd, arms, festival float
Kun:
ほこ
On:
ボウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1538 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 矛盾 【ムジュン】 contradiction, inconsistency
  • 矛盾原理 【ムジュンゲンリ】 principle of contradiction, law of contradiction

Kun reading compounds

  • 矛 【ほこ】 long-handled Chinese spear, lance, pike, weapon, arms, grip of a bow, parade float decorated with long-handled Chinese spears
  • 矛先 【ほこさき】 point of a spear, spearhead, focus (of one's attack, criticism, etc.), aim, target, brunt, force (of an argument), edge
  • 銅矛 【どうほこ】 bronze hoko, bronze halberd, bronze spearhead
  • 鎚矛 【つちほこ】 mace

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mao2
Korean:
mo

Spanish

  • alabarda
  • armas

Portuguese

  • alabarda
  • armas
  • carro alegórico

French

  • hallebarde
  • armes
  • char de festival
1843 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1672 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3164 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1813 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1565 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
150 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
773 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
787 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
955 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1392 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2501 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1266 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1732 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1233 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
23846 Morohashi
2008 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3974 New Nelson (John Haig)
1225 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1311 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1054 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3553 2001 Kanji
0a5.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-3 SKIP code
2-3-2 SKIP code
1722.2 Four corner code
1-44-23 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
77db Unicode hex code