Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
blue 青 (靑)
Parts:
blue, green
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
589 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 青果 【セイカ】 fruits and vegetables, produce
  • 青雲 【セイウン】 blue sky, erudition, detachment from the world, high rank
  • 回青 【カイセイ】 Mohammedan blue (pigment used in porcelain painting)
  • 黛青 【タイセイ】 blackish blue
  • 青面金剛 【ショウメンコンゴウ】 Shōmen Kongō, Blue-Faced Vajra, blue-skinned deity depicted with two, four or six arms; originally associated with esoteric Buddhism, thought to bring sickness; revered as part of kōshin-machi beliefs during the Edo period
  • 青龍 【セイリョウ】 blue dragon (an auspicious creature in Chinese mythology), Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens)
  • 緑青 【ロクショウ】 verdigris, green rust, copper rust
  • 花緑青 【ハナロクショウ】 Paris green, emerald green

Kun reading compounds

  • 青 【あお】 blue, azure, green, green light (traffic), black (horse coat color), blue 5-point card, immature, unripe, young
  • 青梅 【あおうめ】 unripe plum
  • プロシア青 【プロシアあお】 Prussian blue
  • 深青 【ふかあお】 dark blue, deep blue, navy blue
  • 青い 【あおい】 blue, azure, green, pale (facial color), gray, grey, unripe, inexperienced
  • 青色 【あおいろ】 blue

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qing1
Korean:
cheong

Spanish

  • azul
  • verde
  • pálido

Portuguese

  • verde
  • azul
  • imaturo
  • verde-claro

French

  • bleu
  • vert
36 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
52 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
43 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
390 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5076 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
331 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
273 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
700 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.2 Japanese for Busy People
208 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
208 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
47 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1871 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3084 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1573 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2152 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1548 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42564P Morohashi
2430 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6557 New Nelson (John Haig)
1534 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1654 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
393 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
74 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1446 2001 Kanji
4b4.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-4 SKIP code
5022.7 Four corner code
1-32-36 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9752 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
pear tree
Kun:
なし
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N1
1331 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 梨園 【リエン】 theatrical world
  • 梨果 【リカ】 pome
  • 鳳梨 【ホウリ】 pineapple
  • 阿闍梨 【アジャリ】 high monk (esp. one of correct conduct who acts as a role model for his pupils), high priest, initiate (esp. as a formal rank in Tendai and Shingon), monk who conducts religious services

Kun reading compounds

  • 梨 【なし】 nashi (esp. Pyrus pyrifolia), Japanese pear, Asian pear
  • 梨狩り 【なしがり】 pear picking, harvesting pears
  • 西洋梨 【せいようなし】 European pear (Pyrus communis), common pear
  • 青梨 【あおなし】 Harbin pear (Pyrus ussuriensis var. hondoensis), Ussurian pear, Chinese pear

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li2
Korean:
ri

Spanish

  • peral
  • pera

Portuguese

French

  • poire
1487 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2275 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1476 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2115 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1951 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3412 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1757 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2392 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
916 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14873 Morohashi
2744 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2697 New Nelson (John Haig)
907 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
973 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a7.24 The Kanji Dictionary
2-7-4 SKIP code
2290.4 Four corner code
1-45-92 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
68a8 Unicode hex code