Jisho

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15 strokes
Radical:
eat, food 食 (飠)
Parts:
Variants:
foster, bring up, rear, develop, nurture
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N1
888 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 養子 【ヨウシ】 adopted child (usu. male), son-in-law
  • 養育 【ヨウイク】 bringing up, rearing, upbringing
  • 供養 【クヨウ】 memorial service for the dead, holding a service
  • 培養 【バイヨウ】 culture, cultivation, cultivation (of plants), growing, raising, cultivation (e.g. of a skill), nurture (of democracy, national power, etc.), growth

Kun reading compounds

  • 養う 【やしなう】 to support, to maintain, to provide for, to bring up, to raise, to rear, to feed, to adopt (a child), to cultivate (a habit, a quality, etc.), to develop, to build up, to foster, to recuperate (from injury, illness, etc.)

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yang3, yang4
Korean:
yang

Spanish

  • criar
  • mantener
  • cultivarse

Portuguese

  • alimentar
  • educar
  • cultivar
  • desenvolvee
  • nutrir

French

  • nourrir
  • élever
  • cultiver
  • soigner
  • développer
731 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
624 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
594 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
605 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3671 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
773 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1907 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2558 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
402 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
406 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
675 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1901 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2998 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1531 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2089 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1491 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
44144 Morohashi
2365 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6691 New Nelson (John Haig)
1479 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1591 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
629 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
965 2001 Kanji
2o13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-12 SKIP code
2-8-7 SKIP code
2-2-13 SKIP code
2-6-9 SKIP code
8073.2 Four corner code
1-45-60 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
990a Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
tiger stripes
Parts:
Variants:
tiger, drunkard
Kun:
とら
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1653 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 虎列剌 【コレラ】 cholera
  • 虎疫 【コエキ】 cholera
  • 猛虎 【モウコ】 fierce tiger, ferocious tiger, Hanshin Tigers (baseball team)
  • 竜虎 【リュウコ】 dragon and tiger, two mighty rivals

Kun reading compounds

  • 虎 【とら】 tiger (Panthera tigris), drunkard, drunk, sot
  • 虎葦毛 【とらあしげ】 dapple gray (horse coat color), dapple grey
  • 大虎 【おおとら】 big tiger, drinker, staggering drunkard
  • 小虎 【ことら】 small tiger, light drinker, occasional drinker

Readings

Japanese names:
たけ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hu3
Korean:
ho

Spanish

  • tigre

Portuguese

French

  • tigre
  • ivrogne
1558 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4105 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1932 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
754 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2234 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1677 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3981 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2048 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2766 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2009 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
32675 Morohashi
3212 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5265 New Nelson (John Haig)
1990 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2145 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1257 2001 Kanji
2m6.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-4-4 SKIP code
3-6-2 SKIP code
2121.7 Four corner code
2121.1 Four corner code
1-24-55 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
864e Unicode hex code