Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
eat, food 食 (飠)
Parts:
meal, boiled rice
Kun:
めし
On:
ハン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N4
1046 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 飯店 【ハンテン】 Chinese restaurant
  • 飯切 【ハンギリ】 flat-bottomed wooden bowl for preparing sushi rice
  • 米飯 【ベイハン】 cooked rice
  • 赤飯 【セキハン】 red rice (beans and mochi) for auspicious occasions

Kun reading compounds

  • 飯 【めし】 cooked rice, meal, food, one's living, livelihood
  • 飯売女 【めしうりおんな】 maid at an inn who served clients and worked as a prostitute (Edo period)
  • 握り飯 【にぎりめし】 onigiri, rice ball
  • 冷や飯 【ひやめし】 cold rice, hanger-on, dependent, disgraced former actor

Readings

Japanese names:
い、 いい、 いり、 え
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fan4
Korean:
ban

Spanish

  • comida
  • arroz cocido

Portuguese

  • refeição
  • arroz cozido

French

  • repas
  • riz bouilli
696 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
594 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
565 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1083 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5158 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
768 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
279 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1964 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.12 Japanese for Busy People
325 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
325 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
604 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1904 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2126 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1110 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1509 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1485 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
44064P Morohashi
1691 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6679 New Nelson (John Haig)
1473 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1583 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
597 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2867 2001 Kanji
8b4.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-4 SKIP code
8174.7 Four corner code
1-40-51 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
98ef Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
paulownia
Kun:
きり
On:
トウドウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1668 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 桐蔭学園横浜大学 【トウインガクエンヨコハマダイガク】 Toin University of Yokohama
  • 桐蔭横浜大学 【トウインヨコハマダイガク】 Toin University of Yokohama
  • 梧桐 【アオギリ】 Chinese parasol-tree (Firmiana simplex), Chinese-bottletree, Japanese varnishtree, phoenix-tree

Kun reading compounds

  • 桐 【きり】 paulownia (Paulownia tomentosa), empress tree, foxglove tree
  • 桐材 【きりざい】 paulownia wood
  • 五七桐 【ごしちのきり】 paulownia crest (three leaves with seven blossoms on the center lead and five blossoms on each side leaf)

Readings

Japanese names:
ひさ、 き
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tong2
Korean:
dong

Spanish

  • paulonia (planta)

Portuguese

French

  • paulownia
1569 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2249 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1974 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1103 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2110 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1173 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
637 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
847 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
208 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14770 Morohashi
937 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2655 New Nelson (John Haig)
204 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
216 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a6.30 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-6 SKIP code
4792.0 Four corner code
1-22-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6850 Unicode hex code