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陥

10 strokes
Radical:
mound, dam (阝 left) 阜 (阝)
Parts:
｜ 勹 阡 日
Variants:
陷
collapse, fall into, cave in, fall (castle), slide into
Kun:
おちい.る、 おとしい.れる
On:
カン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1154 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 陥落 【カンラク】 subsidence, sinking, cave-in, collapse, falling in, fall (of a city, fortress, etc.), surrender, fall (in position, rank, etc.), demotion, giving in (to someone's persuasion), yielding, being convinced
  • 陥没 【カンボツ】 cave-in, collapse, sinking, depression (e.g. of the skull), subsidence
  • 擠陥 【セイカン】 tempting into crime
  • 注意欠陥 【チュウイケッカン】 attention deficit

Kun reading compounds

  • 陥る 【おちいる】 to fall into (e.g. a hole), to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.), to fall into (a trap, etc.), to fall, to surrender, to capitulate
  • 陥れる 【おとしいれる】 to trap (into a difficult situation), to put (in a fix), to throw (e.g. into turmoil), to trick (into doing), to lure (into a trap), to frame (for a crime), to capture (a castle, fortress, etc.), to take, to reduce, to drop (something) into

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xian4
Korean:
ham

Spanish

  • hundirse
  • derrumbarse
  • caer
  • resbalarse
  • deslizarse

Portuguese

  • colapso
  • desmoronar
  • ruir
  • queda (castelo)
  • deslizamento

French

  • s'écrouler
  • piège
  • tomber dans
  • capituler
  • tomber (château)
  • glisser dans
1098 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1678 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4990 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1718 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1870 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1218 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1281 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1522 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
730 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
547 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
334 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
413 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1325 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41676P Morohashi
457 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6446 New Nelson (John Haig)
1315 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1412 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1401 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3678 2001 Kanji
2d7.11 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
7726.2 Four corner code
1-20-57 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9665 Unicode hex code

没

7 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
几 又 汁 殳
Variants:
沒
drown, sink, hide, fall into, disappear, die
Kun:
おぼ.れる、 しず.む、 ない
On:
ボツ、 モツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1385 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 没 【ボツ】 death, rejection (of a manuscript, etc.), lacking, without
  • 没後 【ボツゴ】 after death, posthumously
  • 戦没 【センボツ】 death in battle, killed in action
  • 陥没 【カンボツ】 cave-in, collapse, sinking, depression (e.g. of the skull), subsidence
  • 没薬 【モツヤク】 myrrh

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mei2, mo4
Korean:
mol

Spanish

  • hundirse
  • ocultarse
  • morir
  • perecer
  • perder
  • penetrar
  • rechazar
  • excluir

Portuguese

  • afogar
  • afundar
  • esconder
  • cair na mãos de
  • desaparecer
  • evaporar

French

  • sombrer
  • couler
  • cacher
  • immersion
  • disparaître
  • mourir
1823 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1579 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2506 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1075 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1461 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
935 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
963 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1130 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1167 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
305 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
194 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
230 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
714 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17233 Morohashi
260 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3066 New Nelson (John Haig)
707 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
763 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1140 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
368 2001 Kanji
3a4.15 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
3714.7 Four corner code
1-43-55 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6ca1 Unicode hex code

乳

8 strokes
Radical:
second 乛 (乙, ⺄, 乚)
Parts:
乙 子 爪
milk, breasts
Kun:
ちち、 ち
On:
ニュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
1289 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 乳製品 【ニュウセイヒン】 dairy products
  • 乳児 【ニュウジ】 infant (below 1 year old), suckling baby
  • 豆乳 【トウニュウ】 soy milk
  • 生乳 【セイニュウ】 raw milk

Kun reading compounds

  • 乳 【ちち】 milk, breast, loop, decorative bump (on a hanging bell)
  • 乳首 【ちくび】 nipple, teat
  • 無い乳 【ないちち】 very small breasts
  • もらい乳 【もらいぢち】 having one's baby nursed by another woman, wet-nursing, breast milk received from another woman
  • 乳 【ちち】 milk, breast, loop, decorative bump (on a hanging bell)
  • 乳房 【ちぶさ】 breast, udder
  • 無い乳 【ないちち】 very small breasts
  • もらい乳 【もらいぢち】 having one's baby nursed by another woman, wet-nursing, breast milk received from another woman

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ru3
Korean:
yu

Spanish

  • leche
  • pecho

Portuguese

  • leite
  • peitos

French

  • lait
  • seins
961 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
951 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
873 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
266 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1216 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
291 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
657 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
939 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
969 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
821 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
29 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1823 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
964 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1306 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
737 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
190X Morohashi
1438 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
61 New Nelson (John Haig)
729 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
786 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
871 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2056 2001 Kanji
3n4.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-1 SKIP code
1-6-1 SKIP code
2241.0 Four corner code
1-38-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e73 Unicode hex code

頭

16 strokes
Radical:
leaf 頁
Parts:
ハ 并 口 目 豆 貝 頁
head, counter for large animals
Kun:
あたま、 かしら、 -がしら、 かぶり
On:
トウ、 ズ、 ト
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N3
433 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 頭 【トウ】 counter for large animals (e.g. head of cattle), counter for insects in a collection, counter for helmets, masks, etc.
  • 頭角 【トウカク】 top of the head
  • 教頭 【キョウトウ】 deputy head teacher, vice principal
  • 会頭 【カイトウ】 society president
  • 頭 【ズ】 head
  • 頭打ち 【アタマウチ】 reaching a peak, reaching the limit, plateauing, maxing out
  • 馬頭 【メズ】 horse-headed demon (in hell)
  • 烏頭 【ウズ】 dried aconite root (used in traditional Chinese medicine), monkshood
  • 頭 【トウ】 counter for large animals (e.g. head of cattle), counter for insects in a collection, counter for helmets, masks, etc.
  • 頭角 【トウカク】 top of the head
  • 鳥兜 【トリカブト】 aconite (esp. species Aconitum japonicum), wolfsbane, monkshood, traditional bugaku hat

Kun reading compounds

  • 頭 【あたま】 head, hair (on one's head), mind, brains, intellect, leader, chief, boss, captain, top, tip, beginning, start, head, person, down payment, deposit, top structural component of a kanji, pair
  • 頭打ち 【あたまうち】 reaching a peak, reaching the limit, plateauing, maxing out
  • 石頭 【いしあたま】 obstinate person, stubbornness, pigheadedness, hard head (like a rock)
  • ごま塩頭 【ごましおあたま】 salt and pepper hair, dark hair streaked with gray
  • 頭 【あたま】 head, hair (on one's head), mind, brains, intellect, leader, chief, boss, captain, top, tip, beginning, start, head, person, down payment, deposit, top structural component of a kanji, pair
  • 頭文字 【かしらもじ】 first letter of a word, capital letter (at the start of a word or sentence), initials (of one's name)
  • お頭 【おかしら】 leader, chief, head, boss, (another person's) head
  • 鯛の尾より鰯の頭 【たいのおよりいわしのかしら】 better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion
  • 頭 【かぶり】 head
  • 頭を振る 【かぶりをふる】 to shake one's head (in denial)

Readings

Japanese names:
かみ、 がみ、 ちゃん、 つむり、 づ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tou2, tou5
Korean:
du

Spanish

  • cabeza
  • principio
  • delantera

Portuguese

  • cabeça
  • sufixo para contagem de animais grandes

French

  • tête
  • compteur de gros animaux
294 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
203 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
186 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
386 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4469 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
519 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
275 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2504 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
276 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
276 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
166 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1889 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2019 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1073 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1450 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1453 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
43490 Morohashi
1604 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6639 New Nelson (John Haig)
1441 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1549 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
234 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
238 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3061 2001 Kanji
9a7.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-9 SKIP code
1118.6 Four corner code
1-38-12 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
982d Unicode hex code