Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
leather, rawhide
Parts:
Variants:
shoes
Kun:
くつ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N3
1561 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 靴帯 【カタイ】 ankle strap (for fastening a shoe)
  • 靴の沓 【カノクツ】 black-lacquered cowhide boots with curved toes, metal buckles, and brocade tops (worn with ceremonial dress)
  • 軍靴 【グンカ】 military shoes, combat boots
  • 製靴 【セイカ】 shoe-making

Kun reading compounds

  • 靴 【くつ】 shoe, shoes, boots, footwear, footgear
  • 靴下 【くつした】 socks, sock, stockings, stocking
  • 胴付長靴 【どうつきながくつ】 waders (waterproof pants often fitted with boots, used mostly by fishermen)
  • 厚底靴 【あつぞこぐつ】 platform shoes, thick-soled shoes

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xue1
Korean:
hwa

Spanish

  • zapatos

Portuguese

  • sapatos

French

  • chaussure
1052 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1446 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5092 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1907 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1004 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1076 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1124 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
995 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1878 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2235 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1165 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1586 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1912 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42729 Morohashi
1781 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6576 New Nelson (John Haig)
1894 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2042 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1687 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1956 2001 Kanji
3k10.34 The Kanji Dictionary
1-9-4 SKIP code
1-8-4 SKIP code
4451.0 Four corner code
4151.0 Four corner code
1-23-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9774 Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
pestle
Parts:
Variants:
year, counter for years
Kun:
とし
On:
ネン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
6 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 年 【ネン】 year, counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school), period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
  • 年会 【ネンカイ】 conference, annual convention
  • 往年 【オウネン】 years gone by, earlier years, former years, the past
  • 平年 【ヘイネン】 non-leap year, average year (for rainfall, temperature, etc.), normal year

Kun reading compounds

  • 年 【とし】 year, age, years, past one's prime, old age
  • 年明け 【としあけ】 beginning of the year, early in the New Year
  • いい年 【いいとし】 mature age, advanced age, maturity, age when one is old enough to know better
  • 御年 【おんとし】 age (esp. advanced)

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
nian2
Korean:
nyeon

Spanish

  • año
  • edad

Portuguese

  • Ano

French

  • année
  • compteur d'années
126 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
20 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
64 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
3 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
188 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
64 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
51 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
342 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.3 Japanese for Busy People
45 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
45 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
24 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
574 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2528 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1284 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1752 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1045 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
9168 Morohashi
2035 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1593 New Nelson (John Haig)
1036 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1114 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
13 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
51 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2355 2001 Kanji
0a6.16 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-4 SKIP code
4-6-3 SKIP code
8050.0 Four corner code
1-39-15 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5e74 Unicode hex code