Jisho

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21 strokes
Radical:
rain
Parts:
dew, tears, expose, Russia
Kun:
つゆ
On:
ロウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
928 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 露 【ロ】 Russia
  • 露骨 【ロコツ】 open, unconcealed, undisguised, blatant, plain, frank, broad, lewd, indecent, crude
  • 吐露 【トロ】 expressing one's mind, speaking out
  • 発露 【ハツロ】 appearance, expression, manifestation
  • 露宇 【ロウ】 Russia and Ukraine
  • 襲名披露 【シュウメイヒロウ】 announcing the succession to another's stage name
  • 新序出世披露 【シンジョシュッセヒロウ】 presenting of new wrestlers to audience

Kun reading compounds

  • 露 【つゆ】 dew, tears, (not) a bit, (not) at all
  • 露払い 【つゆはらい】 person who clears the way for a high-ranking person, procession, etc., outrider, harbinger, forerunner, opening performer, sumo wrestler who leads a yokozuna at his ring-entering ceremony
  • 朝露 【あさつゆ】 morning dew
  • 下露 【したつゆ】 dew under (dripping from) trees

Readings

Japanese names:
や、 ゆ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lu4, lou4
Korean:
ro

Spanish

  • rocío
  • relente
  • exponer
  • mostrar
  • sereno
  • Rusia

Portuguese

  • orvalho
  • lágrimas
  • mortalidade
  • fragilidade

French

  • rosée
  • larmes
  • dévoiler
  • Russie
1935 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1144 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5069 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1074 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1894 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2941 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
951 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
981 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
846 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1870 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3495 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1803 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2454 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1291 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42463 Morohashi
2818 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6549 New Nelson (John Haig)
1283 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1377 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1940 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3177 2001 Kanji
8d13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-13 SKIP code
1016.4 Four corner code
1-47-10 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9732 Unicode hex code

11 strokes (also 10)
Radical:
town (阝 right) 邑 (阝)
Parts:
Variants:
metropolis, capital, all, everything
Kun:
みやこ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
123 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 都 【ト】 Metropolis (of Tokyo), (Tokyo) Metropolitan District, metropolitan prefecture, counter for cities and towns, capital
  • 都営 【トエイ】 (under) metropolitan government management
  • 遷都 【セント】 relocation of the capital, transfer of the capital
  • 東都 【トウト】 the Eastern Capital (now Tokyo), Yedo, Edo
  • 都度 【ツド】 each (every) time, whenever
  • 都合 【ツゴウ】 circumstances, condition, convenience, arranging, managing, lending money, raising money, in all, in total, all told

Kun reading compounds

  • 都 【みやこ】 capital (esp. Kyoto, Japan's former capital), seat of government, capital (of music, fashion, etc.), city (e.g. of light), location of the Imperial Palace
  • 都入り 【みやこいり】 arriving in the capital
  • 京の都 【きょうのみやこ】 Kyoto
  • 花の都 【はなのみやこ】 City of Flowers (nickname for various cities, esp. Paris and Florence)

Readings

Japanese names:
くに、 ず、 ち、 づめ、 みや
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
du1, dou1
Korean:
do

Spanish

  • metrópoli
  • capital

Portuguese

  • metropole
  • capital

French

  • métropole
  • capitale
287 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
376 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
355 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
92 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4769 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
173 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
265 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1419 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.12 Japanese for Busy People
188 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
188 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
338 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
761 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2120 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1106 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1505 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1863 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
39497P Morohashi
1686 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6148 New Nelson (John Haig)
1846 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1989 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
384 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1444 2001 Kanji
2d8.13 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-3 SKIP code
1-8-2 SKIP code
4762.7 Four corner code
1-37-52 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
90fd Unicode hex code