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

Speed

Stroke order

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

17 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
mimic, aim (a gun) at, nominate, imitate
Kun:
まが.いもど.き
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1990 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 擬 【ギ】 pseudo-, quasi-
  • 疑似 【ギジ】 pseudo, quasi, false, para-, mock, sham, suspected (case, e.g. of disease)

Kun reading compounds

  • 紛い 【まがい】 imitation, sham, -like
  • 紛い物 【まがいもの】 imitation, fake, sham
  • 擬き 【もどき】 -like, pseudo-, mock ..., imitation ..., in the style of ..., comical character who mocks or apes the main character (in Japanese performing arts), criticism, censure
  • 銀竜草擬 【ぎんりょうそうもどき】 Indian pipe (Monotropa uniflora)
  • 太平洋赤坊擬 【たいへいようあかぼうもどき】 Longman's beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus), Indo-Pacific beaked whale, tropical bottlenose whale

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ni3
Korean:
eui

Spanish

  • imitar
  • comparar
  • parecerse
  • suponer

Portuguese

  • imitar
  • alvo (uma arma)
  • nomear
  • imita

French

  • imitation
  • pointer une arme
  • nommer
  • comparer
1139 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1851 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2026 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1356 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1387 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1517 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1618 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1791 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
930 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
969 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
540 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
706 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1423 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
12870 Morohashi
788 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2307 New Nelson (John Haig)
1411 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1514 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1869 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1370 2001 Kanji
3c14.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-14 SKIP code
5708.1 Four corner code
1-21-28 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
64ec Unicode hex code