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陶

11 strokes
Radical:
mound, dam (阝 left) 阜 (阝)
Parts:
勹 阡 缶
pottery, porcelain
Kun:
すえ
On:
トウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1680 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 陶芸 【トウゲイ】 ceramic art, ceramics
  • 陶器 【トウキ】 pottery, earthenware, ceramics, (soft-paste) porcelain, china
  • 製陶 【セイトウ】 porcelain manufacturing
  • 作陶 【サクトウ】 porcelain making, ceramics making, pottery making

Kun reading compounds

  • 陶 【すえ】 pottery, earthenware, ceramics, porcelain
  • 須恵器 【すえき】 Sue ware (type of unglazed pottery made from the middle of the Kofun era through the Heian era)

Readings

Japanese names:
す
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tao2, yao2
Korean:
do, yo

Spanish

  • alfarería
  • porcelana
  • diversión

Portuguese

  • cerâmica
  • porcelana

French

  • poterie
  • porcelaine
1650 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1596 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5003 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1481 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1875 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1565 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1650 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1763 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1526 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
738 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
662 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
402 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
499 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1985 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
41705 Morohashi
546 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6459 New Nelson (John Haig)
1966 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2117 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1498 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3652 2001 Kanji
2d8.11 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
7722.0 Four corner code
1-38-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9676 Unicode hex code

枕

8 strokes
Radical:
tree 木
Parts:
乙 ノ 冖 尢 木
pillow
Kun:
まくら
On:
チン、 シン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2084 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 枕籍 【チンセキ】 bedding, bed, to sleep together in the same bed, to sleep together using each other's bodies as pillow, to sleep together using books as a pillow
  • 枕状溶岩 【マクラジョウヨウガン】 pillow lava
  • 開枕 【カイチン】 bringing out the pillows and futon (in Zen Buddhism), sleeping
  • 陶枕 【トウチン】 porcelain pillow (used in summer)

Kun reading compounds

  • 枕 【まくら】 pillow, bolster, introduction (e.g. to a rakugo story), lead-in
  • 枕絵 【まくらえ】 erotic picture
  • 新枕 【にいまくら】 bridal bed
  • 高枕 【たかまくら】 high pillow

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhen3, zhen4
Korean:
chim

Spanish

  • almohada
  • prefacio a una frase o charla

Portuguese

French

2209 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1900 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
627 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
965 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1064 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
759 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
14546 Morohashi
2589 New Nelson (John Haig)
2472 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2034 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1857 2001 Kanji
4a4.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
4491.2 Four corner code
1-43-77 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6795 Unicode hex code