Jisho

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27 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:
Variants:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鑽孔 【サンコウ】 boring, punching
  • 鑽孔機 【サンコウキ】 boring machine, punching machine, perforator
  • 研鑽 【ケンサン】 diligent study, devoting oneself to one's studies
  • 試鑽 【シサン】 boring, drilling

Kun reading compounds

  • 鑽る 【きる】 to start a fire (with wood-wood friction or by striking metal against stone)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zuan4, zuan1, zuan3
Korean:
chan

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4935 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3020 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
41082 Morohashi
6374 New Nelson (John Haig)
8a15.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-19 SKIP code
8418.6 Four corner code
1-79-51 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
947d Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
child, seed
Parts:
Variants:
cavity, hole, slit, very, great, exceedingly
Kun:
あな
On:
コウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2052 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 孔子 【コウシ】 Confucius
  • 孔隙率 【コウゲキリツ】 porosity
  • 瞳孔 【ドウコウ】 pupil (of the eye)
  • 細孔 【サイコウ】 pore, small cavity, puncture
  • 孔雀 【クジャク】 peafowl (incl. the male peacock, female peahen, and young peachick)
  • 孔子 【コウシ】 Confucius

Kun reading compounds

  • 穴 【あな】 hole, opening, orifice, perforation, pit, hollow, cavity, hole (e.g. in the ground), burrow, den, lair, holt, hole, deficit, shortage, (financial) hole, loss, gap (left by a missing employee, team member, etc.), vacancy, opening, flaw, fault, defect, weak point, hole (in a theory, plan, etc.), loophole, good place not many people know about, well-kept secret, upset victory (with a large payoff), long shot, dark horse, (partitioned) box (type of floor seating in a traditional Japanese theatre), hiding place, hideout
  • 鍵穴 【かぎあな】 keyhole
  • 巣穴 【すあな】 nesting hole, burrow, den

Readings

Japanese names:
のり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kong3
Korean:
gong

Spanish

  • cavidad
  • agujero
  • raja
  • grieta

Portuguese

  • Cavidade
  • buraco
  • fenda
  • muito
  • grande
  • excessivamente

French

  • cavité
  • trou
  • fente
  • très
  • grand
  • extrêmement
1241 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1755 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1265 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1336 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1203 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
58 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
940 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
970 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1881 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
456 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
205 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
131 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
158 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
97 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6933 Morohashi
179 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1282 New Nelson (John Haig)
96 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
100 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1028 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3556 2001 Kanji
2c1.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-1 SKIP code
1-2-1 SKIP code
1241.0 Four corner code
1-25-06 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b54 Unicode hex code