Jisho

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19 strokes
Radical:
small bird
Parts:
detach, separation, disjoin, digress
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
555 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 離 【リ】 li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
  • 離宮 【リキュウ】 imperial villa, royal villa, detached palace
  • 短距離 【タンキョリ】 short distance, short range, short-haul
  • 近距離 【キンキョリ】 short distance

Kun reading compounds

  • 離れる 【はなれる】 to be separated, to be apart, to be distant, to leave, to go away, to leave (a job, etc.), to quit, to give up, to lose connection with, to drift away from
  • 離す 【はなす】 to separate, to part, to divide, to keep apart

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li2
Korean:
ri

Spanish

  • separarse
  • apartarse
  • separar
  • apartar

Portuguese

  • separar
  • separação
  • digressão
  • divagação

French

  • séparer
  • détacher
  • diviser
  • s'écarter
1897 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
641 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5040 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
909 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1887 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2889 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1281 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1355 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1008 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1857 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2364 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1195 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1663 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1505 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42140X Morohashi
1836 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6517 New Nelson (John Haig)
1492 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1605 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1923 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
475 2001 Kanji
8c10.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-11-8 SKIP code
0041.4 Four corner code
1-46-05 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
96e2 Unicode hex code

14 strokes
Radical:
ghost, demon
Parts:
soul, spirit
Kun:
たましいたま
On:
コン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1748 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 魂 【コン】 Yang energy, spirit
  • 魂胆 【コンタン】 ulterior motive, plot, scheme, complicated circumstances, intricacies
  • 鎮魂 【チンコン】 repose of a soul, ceremony for the repose of a departed soul
  • 入魂 【ニュウコン】 putting one's heart and soul (into), giving one's all, breathing a soul into (e.g. a Buddhist statue), intimacy, familiarity

Kun reading compounds

  • 魂 【たましい】 soul, spirit
  • 魂不死説 【たましいふしせつ】 (theory of) the immortality of the soul
  • 一寸の虫にも五分の魂 【いっすんのむしにもごぶのたましい】 tread on a worm and it will turn, even a tiny bug will defend itself, even the weakest and smallest beings have their own wills, so do not make light of them
  • 死せる魂 【しせるたましい】 Dead Souls (novel by Gogol), Myortvye dushi
  • 魂 【たましい】 soul, spirit
  • 魂送り 【たまおくり】 sending off the spirits of the dead
  • 稲魂 【うかのみたま】 the god of foodstuffs (esp. of rice)
  • 亡き魂 【なきたま】 departed soul, spirit

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hun2
Korean:
hon

Spanish

  • alma
  • espíritu
  • corazón

Portuguese

  • alma
  • espírito

French

  • âme
  • esprit
1280 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1655 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5278 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1584 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1917 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2488 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1525 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1626 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1754 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1927 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1346 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
729 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
975 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2040 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
45787 Morohashi
1063 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6835 New Nelson (John Haig)
2021 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2177 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1746 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3057 2001 Kanji
5f9.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-10 SKIP code
1671.3 Four corner code
1-26-18 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9b42 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
sickness
Parts:
ill, sick
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
384 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 病 【ビョウ】 disease
  • 病院 【ビョウイン】 hospital, clinic, doctor's office, doctor's surgery, infirmary
  • 血友病 【ケツユウビョウ】 hemophilia, haemophilia
  • 同病 【ドウビョウ】 the same sickness

Kun reading compounds

  • 病む 【やむ】 to fall ill, to suffer from (e.g. a disease), to have something wrong with (e.g. an inner organ)
  • 病 【やまい】 illness, disease, bad habit, weakness, fault
  • 病が篤い 【やまいがあつい】 seriously ill
  • 恋病 【こいやまい】 lovesickness
  • 躁鬱病 【そううつびょう】 manic depression, manic-depressive psychosis, bipolar disorder

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bing4
Korean:
byeong

Spanish

  • enfermedad
  • caer enfermo

Portuguese

  • mal
  • doente

French

  • malade
310 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
404 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
381 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
441 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3042 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
145 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
224 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1250 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.6 Japanese for Busy People
380 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
381 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
229 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1352 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4062 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2059 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2791 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1698 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
22127 Morohashi
3277 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3798 New Nelson (John Haig)
1682 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1813 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
365 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
553 2001 Kanji
5i5.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-5-5 SKIP code
0012.7 Four corner code
1-41-34 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
75c5 Unicode hex code