Jisho

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18 strokes
Radical:
leaf
Parts:
Variants:
face, expression
Kun:
かお
On:
ガン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N3
676 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 顔 【カオ】 face, visage, look, expression, countenance, honor, honour, face, influence, notoriety
  • 顔色 【カオイロ】 complexion, one's colour, one's color, countenance, expression, one's face
  • 美顔 【ビガン】 beautiful face, facial care, facial treatment
  • 童顔 【ドウガン】 child's face, childlike face, boyish face, baby face

Kun reading compounds

  • 顔 【かお】 face, visage, look, expression, countenance, honor, honour, face, influence, notoriety
  • 顔合わせ 【かおあわせ】 meeting together, introduction, costarring, appearing together, being matched, facing off
  • いい顔 【いいかお】 big-shot, influential person, happy face, smiling face, sympathetic attitude, getting along with, being all smiles, good looks, nice face
  • 涼しい顔 【すずしいかお】 nonchalant air, unruffled air

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan2
Korean:
an

Spanish

  • cara
  • faz
  • semblante
  • rostro
  • expresión

Portuguese

  • rosto
  • expressão

French

  • visage
  • expression
179 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
103 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
93 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
527 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5139 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
481 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
277 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2754 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
277 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
277 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
573 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1893 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2277 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1177 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1608 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1733 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
43591P Morohashi
1808 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6648 New Nelson (John Haig)
1717 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1853 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
355 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
239 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
461 2001 Kanji
9a9.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-9-9 SKIP code
0128.6 Four corner code
1-20-73 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9854 Unicode hex code

16 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:
cloudy weather, cloud up
Kun:
くも.る
On:
ドン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1899 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 曇天 【ドンテン】 cloudy sky, overcast sky, cloudy weather
  • 晴曇 【セイドン】 fine weather and cloudy weather

Kun reading compounds

  • 曇る 【くもる】 to get cloudy, to cloud over, to become overcast, to cloud up, to fog up, to mist up, to become dim, to be gloomy, to be clouded (expression), to be downcast, to look slightly downward (of a noh mask; indicating sadness, grief, etc.)

Readings

Japanese names:
ど、 ずみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tan2
Korean:
dam

Spanish

  • nublado
  • nublarse

Portuguese

  • tempo nublado
  • nublar

French

  • temps couvert
  • se couvrir
1672 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
948 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2160 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1575 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
608 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2685 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
637 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
647 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1281 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
983 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3141 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1610 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2195 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
431 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14172 Morohashi
2521 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2518 New Nelson (John Haig)
424 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
453 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1834 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3871 2001 Kanji
4c12.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-12 SKIP code
6073.1 Four corner code
1-38-62 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
66c7 Unicode hex code