Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
small bird
Parts:
Variants:
wild goose
Kun:
かりかりがね
On:
ガン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2192 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 雁 【ガン】 wild goose, glans, head of a penis
  • 雁 【ガン】 Gan, The Wild Geese (1913 novel by Mori Ōgai)
  • ハワイ雁 【ハワイガン】 Hawaiian goose (Branta sandvicensis), nene
  • 鴻雁 【コウガン】 wild geese, large geese and small geese

Kun reading compounds

  • 雁 【がん】 wild goose, glans, head of a penis
  • 雁が音 【かりがね】 call of a wild goose, wild goose (esp. a lesser white-fronted goose, Anser erythropus), tea made from twigs of high-quality tea plants (esp. gyokuro), high-grade kukicha (esp. from gyokuro)
  • 雁が音 【かりがね】 call of a wild goose, wild goose (esp. a lesser white-fronted goose, Anser erythropus), tea made from twigs of high-quality tea plants (esp. gyokuro), high-grade kukicha (esp. from gyokuro)
  • 雁金草 【かりがねそう】 blue spirea (Caryopteris divaricata), blue mist shrub

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan4
Korean:
an

Spanish

  • ganso salvaje
  • oca salvaje

Portuguese

French

830 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3741 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2597 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
41960 Morohashi
6498 New Nelson (John Haig)
2150 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2273 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2p10.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-10 SKIP code
7121.4 Four corner code
1-20-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
96c1 Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
child, seed
Parts:
character, letter, word, section of village
Kun:
あざあざな-な
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
485 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 字 【ジ】 character (esp. kanji), letter, written text, handwriting, penmanship, the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
  • 字形 【ジケイ】 character style, character form
  • 題字 【ダイジ】 title lettering
  • 英字 【エイジ】 English letter, alphabetic character

Kun reading compounds

  • 字 【あざ】 section of village
  • 字 【あざな】 Chinese courtesy name (name formerly given to adult Chinese men, used in place of their given name in formal situations), nickname, section of a village
  • 大字 【おおあざ】 larger section (of village)
  • 小字 【こあざ】 small administrative unit (of a village)
  • 字 【あざな】 Chinese courtesy name (name formerly given to adult Chinese men, used in place of their given name in formal situations), nickname, section of a village

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi4
Korean:
ja

Spanish

  • carácter
  • letra
  • palabra

Portuguese

  • caracter
  • letra
  • palavra
  • seção de aldeia

French

  • caractère
  • lettre
  • mot
  • hameau
86 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
78 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
28 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
612 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1281 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
121 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
156 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2.17 Japanese for Busy People
110 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
110 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
528 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
457 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2696 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1374 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1860 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
188 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6942 Morohashi
2172 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1285 New Nelson (John Haig)
185 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
197 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
57 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
747 2001 Kanji
3m2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-3 SKIP code
2-3-2 SKIP code
3040.7 Four corner code
1-27-90 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b57 Unicode hex code

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Kun reading compounds

  • 絡める 【からめる】 to entwine, to twine around, to mix together, to coordinate (with), to arrest

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
nuo4
Korean:
nig, nyag

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1972 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
12500 Morohashi
2248 New Nelson (John Haig)
3c10.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-10 SKIP code
5702.7 Four corner code
1-57-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6426 Unicode hex code