Jisho

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18 strokes
Radical:
leaf
Parts:
forehead, tablet, plaque, framed picture, sum, amount, volume
Kun:
ひたい
On:
ガク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
407 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 額 【ガク】 (picture) frame, framed picture, amount (esp. of money), sum
  • 額面 【ガクメン】 face value, par
  • 定額 【テイガク】 fixed amount (of money), fixed sum, flat sum
  • 税額 【ゼイガク】 amount of tax

Kun reading compounds

  • 額 【ひたい】 forehead, brow
  • 額当て 【ひたいあて】 (military) headband with reinforced metal plate, red headband
  • 広い額 【ひろいひたい】 high brow, broad forehead

Readings

Japanese names:
ぬか
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
e2
Korean:
aeg

Spanish

  • frente
  • cantidad de dinero
  • marco de un cuadro

Portuguese

  • testa
  • tablete
  • placa
  • quadro emoldurado
  • soma
  • quantia
  • volume

French

  • front
  • tablette
  • plaque
  • peinture (encadrée)
  • somme
  • montant
  • volume
748 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
665 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
635 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
522 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5136 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
749 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1010 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2756 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
838 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
857 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
861 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1892 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2273 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1174 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1604 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
301 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
43586 Morohashi
1805 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6644 New Nelson (John Haig)
295 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
316 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
821 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
761 2001 Kanji
9a9.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-9-9 SKIP code
3168.6 Four corner code
1-19-59 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
984d Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
small, insignificant
Parts:
few, little
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
287 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 少 【ショウ】 small, little, few
  • 少輔 【ショウ】 assistant vice-minister (ritsuryō system, early Meiji period)
  • 最少 【サイショウ】 fewest, least, smallest (number), lowest, minimum, youngest
  • 過少 【カショウ】 too few, too little, insufficient

Kun reading compounds

  • 少ない 【すくない】 few, little, small (amount), low, scarce, insufficient, seldom, rare
  • 少し 【すこし】 a little, a bit, a small amount, a few, some, slightly, somewhat, a little while, a short time, a moment, a minute, a little way, a short distance
  • 少しも 【すこしも】 (not) at all, (not) a bit, (not) in the least, (not) in the slightest

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shao3, shao4
Korean:
so

Spanish

  • poco
  • pequeño
  • un poco
  • apenas

Portuguese

  • poucos
  • pequenos

French

  • un petit peu
  • un peu
93 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
160 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
143 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
231 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
166 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
129 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
47 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
88 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.17 Japanese for Busy People
144 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
144 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
105 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
512 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4278 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2163 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2915 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
107 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7475 Morohashi
3467 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1390 New Nelson (John Haig)
106 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
111 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
153 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
95 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1160 2001 Kanji
3n1.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-4 SKIP code
1-1-3 SKIP code
9020.0 Four corner code
1-30-15 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5c11 Unicode hex code