Jisho

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19 strokes
Radical:
rain
Parts:
Variants:
fog, mist
Kun:
きり
On:
ボウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1747 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 霧化 【ムカ】 atomization
  • 霧虹 【キリニジ】 fog bow, fogbow, mistbow, white rainbow
  • 夕霧 【ユウギリ】 evening mist
  • 海霧 【カイム】 sea fog
  • 蓮霧 【レンブ】 wax apple (Syzygium samarangense), Java apple

Kun reading compounds

  • 霧 【きり】 fog, mist, spray
  • 霧雨 【きりさめ】 drizzle, light rain
  • 黒い霧 【くろいきり】 thick fog (of suspicion), black veil of secrecy, covered-up crime, unethical act, etc.
  • 雲霧 【うんむ】 clouds and fog

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wu4
Korean:
mu

Spanish

  • niebla
  • neblina

Portuguese

  • nevoeiro
  • névoa
  • neblina

French

  • brouillard
  • brume
1845 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1088 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5065 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1038 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1893 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2846 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
950 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
980 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
845 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1869 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3493 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1802 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2452 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1236 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42418 Morohashi
2817 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6545 New Nelson (John Haig)
1228 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1314 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1924 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3145 2001 Kanji
8d11.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-11 SKIP code
1022.7 Four corner code
1-44-24 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9727 Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
insect
Parts:
rainbow
Kun:
にじ
On:
コウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2110 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 虹技 【コウギ】 Kogi Corporation
  • 虹霓 【コウゲイ】 rainbow
  • 副虹 【フクニジ】 secondary rainbow
  • 月虹 【ゲッコウ】 moonbow, lunar rainbow, whitish rainbow cast by moonlight, lunar bow, space rainbow

Kun reading compounds

  • 虹 【にじ】 rainbow
  • 虹色 【にじいろ】 rainbow-colored, rainbow-coloured
  • 夕虹 【ゆうにじ】 evening rainbow
  • 過剰虹 【かじょうにじ】 supernumerary rainbow

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hong2, jiang4
Korean:
hong, gang

Spanish

  • arco iris

Portuguese

French

  • arc-en-ciel
4118 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
882 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2235 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2045 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1637 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
863 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1180 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
526 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
32830 Morohashi
1285 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5279 New Nelson (John Haig)
520 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
559 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1672 2001 Kanji
6d3.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-3 SKIP code
5111.0 Four corner code
1-38-90 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8679 Unicode hex code