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

5 strokes
Radical:
skin
Parts:
pelt, skin, hide, leather, skin radical (no. 107)
Kun:
かわ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
1092 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 皮肉 【ヒニク】 irony, sarcasm, cynicism, satire, unexpected, different from what one expected, not as one had planned, (only) surface, something superficial, skin and bone, body
  • 皮革 【ヒカク】 leather, hide
  • 表皮 【ヒョウヒ】 epidermis, cuticle, bark, epidermis, facade
  • 上皮 【ウワカワ】 outer layer (e.g. of skin), cuticle, epidermis, bark, rind, crust, film (on the surface of a liquid), scum, epithelium

Kun reading compounds

  • 皮 【かわ】 skin, hide, pelt, fur, rind, peel, husk, bark, shell, sheath, wrapping, mask (hiding one's true nature), seeming
  • 皮切り 【かわきり】 beginning, start
  • 一皮 【ひとかわ】 unmasking
  • 薄皮 【うすかわ】 thin skin

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
pi2
Korean:
pi

Spanish

  • pellejo
  • piel
  • cuero
  • pelaje

Portuguese

  • pelego
  • pele
  • esconder
  • couro

French

  • peau
  • cuir
  • fourrure
  • radical peau (no. 107)
307 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
396 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
374 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
939 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3109 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
863 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
755 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
975 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1008 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1144 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1367 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3771 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1923 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2615 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
810 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
22823 Morohashi
3037 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3878 New Nelson (John Haig)
802 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
865 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
258 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1667 2001 Kanji
2h3.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-2 SKIP code
4-5-4 SKIP code
4024.7 Four corner code
1-40-73 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
76ae Unicode hex code