| 116 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 189 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 173 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 25 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 4938 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 155 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 95 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 939 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.20 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 95 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 95 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 89 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1837 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3163 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1626 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2212 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1939 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 41100 | Morohashi |
| 2556 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 6379 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1920 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 2070 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 90 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 161 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
12 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 長 【チョウ】 head, chief, leader, elder, merit, strong point, superiority, major
- 長官 【チョウカン】 secretary (government), director, chief
- 体長 【タイチョウ】 length (of an animal), body length
- 医長 【イチョウ】 medical director, chief physician
Kun reading compounds
- 長い 【ながい】 long (distance, length), long (time), protracted, prolonged
- 長居 【ながい】 long visit, overstaying
- 長 【おさ】 head, chief, leader, the greatest (of all the ...)
- 【オサガメ】 leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
- 田長 【たおさ】 master of the rice field, chief farmer, lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
- 死出田長 【しでたおさ】 lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
Readings
- Japanese names:
- お、 おしゃ、 たかし、 たけ、 な、 は、 ひさ
- Korean:
- jang
Spanish
- largo
- jefe
- sobresaliente
Portuguese
- Longo
- ambicionar
- líder
- chefe
French
- long
- chef
| 3465 | 2001 Kanji |
| 0a8.2 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-5-3 | SKIP code |
| 4-8-1 | SKIP code |
| 7173.2 | Four corner code |
| 1-36-25 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 9577 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1140 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 柄節 【ヘイセツ】 scape (of an insect)
- 政柄 【セイヘイ】 political power
- 羽柄 【ウヘイ】 calamus, quill
Kun reading compounds
- 柄 【がら】 pattern, design, body build, figure, physique, essential qualities, character, nature, appropriate to, fitting of, suitable for
- ガラが悪い 【ガラがわるい】 ill-bred, vulgar, boorish
- 土地柄 【とちがら】 nature of the locality, character of a place, local colour, local color
- 役柄 【やくがら】 role
- 柄 【え】 handle, grip, stalk (of a mushroom, leaf, etc.)
- 柄鏡 【えかがみ】 traditional mirror with a handle, popular since the Muromachi period
- 長柄 【ながえ】 long handle, long-handled spear, long shaft
- 柄 【つか】 hilt (of a sword), haft (of a dagger), handle, handgrip
- 柄頭 【つかがしら】 pommel
- 鎌柄 【かまつか】 pike gudgeon (Pseudogobio esocinus), Oriental photinia (Photinia villosa), Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis), Joseph's coat (Amaranthus tricolor), tampala, sickle handle
Readings
- Japanese names:
- から、 ら
- Korean:
- byeong
Spanish
- asa
- agarradera
- diseño
- patrón
- dibujo
- figura
Portuguese
- projeto
- modelo
- construção
- natureza
- cabo
- manivela
- maçaneta
- puxador
French
- dessin
- motif
- construire
- nature
- manche
- poignée
- bouton
- manivelle
| 1776 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 904 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2234 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1168 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1424 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 862 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 985 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1019 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 989 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1085 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1111 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 604 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 799 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1030 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 14603 | Morohashi |
| 897 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2627 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1021 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1097 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1270 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 1853 | 2001 Kanji |
| 4a5.9 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-4-5 | SKIP code |
| 4192.7 | Four corner code |
| 1-42-33 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 67c4 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N1
1794 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 刀 【カタナ】 sword (esp. Japanese single-edged), katana, scalpel, chisel, burin, graver, knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
- 刀剣 【トウケン】 sword, dagger, knife, bayonet
- 小刀 【コガタナ】 (small) knife, short sword, small sword
- 太刀 【タチ】 long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai), large sword, straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier), guandao, Chinese glaive
Kun reading compounds
- 刀 【かたな】 sword (esp. Japanese single-edged), katana, scalpel, chisel, burin, graver, knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
- 刀折れ矢尽きて 【かたなおれやつきて】 having exhausted every available means, having broken one's sword and exhausted one's arrows
- 一刀 【いっとう】 sword, blade, single stroke
- 返す刀 【かえすかたな】 attacking one opponent then immediately attacking another
- 剃刀 【かみそり】 razor
- オッカムの剃刀 【オッカムのかみそり】 Occam's razor, Ockham's razor
Readings
- Japanese names:
- き、 ち、 と、 わき
- Korean:
- do
Spanish
- espada
Portuguese
- espada
- sabre
- faca
French
- épée
- sabre
- couteau
| 289 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 198 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 181 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1494 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 665 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 34 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1088 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 12 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 37 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 37 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 441 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 177 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3642 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1857 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2534 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 84 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 1845 | Morohashi |
| 2926 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 448 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 83 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 87 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 81 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3545 | 2001 Kanji |
| 2f0.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 3-1-1 | SKIP code |
| 4-2-1 | SKIP code |
| 1722.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-37-65 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 5200 | Unicode hex code |