| 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
1339 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 須恵器 【スエキ】 Sue ware (type of unglazed pottery made from the middle of the Kofun era through the Heian era)
- 須義 【スギ】 cobia (Rachycentron canadum), sergeant fish
- 恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
- 提宇子 【ダイウス】 God
- 須髯 【シュゼン】 beard
- 須弥山 【シュミセン】 Mount Sumeru (believed to be the centre of the Buddhist world)
Kun reading compounds
- 須らく 【すべからく】 absolutely (ought to), by all means, all, entirely
Readings
- Japanese names:
- もとむ、 ぞ
- Korean:
- su
Spanish
- instante
- desear
- anhelar
- esperar
Portuguese
French
- nécessité
- certainement
- devrait faire
| 936 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1592 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1946 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1544 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2263 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1531 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 700 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 419 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 526 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1734 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 43352 | Morohashi |
| 574 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 6618 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1718 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1854 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 3j9.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-3-9 | SKIP code |
| 2128.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-31-60 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 9808 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1486 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 鯨肉 【ゲイニク】 whale meat
- 鯨飲 【ゲイイン】 drinking hard, drinking like a fish
- 酔鯨 【スイゲイ】 Suigei
- 白鯨 【ハクゲイ】 Moby-Dick (1851 novel by Herman Melville)
Kun reading compounds
- 鯨 【くじら】 whale (Cetacea spp.)
- 鯨肉 【げいにく】 whale meat
- タスマニア鯨 【タスマニアくじら】 Shepherd's beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi)
- 五島鯨 【ごとうくじら】 larger whales of family Delphinidae (esp. the pilot whale or blackfish)
Readings
- Korean:
- gyeong
Spanish
- ballena
Portuguese
- baleia
French
- baleine
| 1208 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1768 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 5307 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1345 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1921 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 2831 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 700 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 713 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 915 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1933 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 2361 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1214 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1661 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 321 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 46257 | Morohashi |
| 1882 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 6886 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 315 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 337 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1927 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 2541 | 2001 Kanji |
| 11a8.9 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 1-11-8 | SKIP code |
| 2039.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-23-63 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 9be8 | Unicode hex code |