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

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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

13 strokes
Radical:
insect
Parts:
Variants:
bee, wasp, hornet
Kun:
はち
On:
ホウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2223 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蜂起 【ホウキ】 uprising, revolt
  • 蜂窩 【ホウカ】 beehive, hive, honeycomb
  • 寄生蜂 【キセイバチ】 parasitoid wasp, parasitic wasp, parasitic bee
  • 養蜂 【ヨウホウ】 beekeeping, apiculture

Kun reading compounds

  • 蜂 【はち】 bee, wasp, hornet
  • 蜂蜜 【はちみつ】 honey
  • 虻蜂 【あぶはち】 horsefly and bee, horsefly and wasp

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
feng1
Korean:
bong

Spanish

  • avispa
  • abeja
  • avispón

Portuguese

French

4150 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1921 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
821 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1728 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1247 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
33088 Morohashi
5331 New Nelson (John Haig)
2687 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1684 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6d7.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-7 SKIP code
5715.4 Four corner code
1-43-10 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8702 Unicode hex code

15 strokes
Radical:
bamboo 竹 (⺮)
Parts:
box, chest, case, bin, railway car
Kun:
はこ
On:
ソウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
1357 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 百葉箱 【ヒャクヨウバコ】 Stevenson screen (louvre-sided box housing for meteorological gauges), instrument shelter
  • 書箱 【ショソウ】 bookcase

Kun reading compounds

  • 箱 【はこ】 box, case, chest, package, pack, crate, car (of a train, etc.), shamisen case, shamisen, public building, community building, man who carries a geisha's shamisen, receptacle for human waste, feces (faeces), counter for boxes (or boxed objects)
  • 箱入り 【はこいり】 cased, boxed, precious, cherished, girl who has been sheltered from the world, one's special talent
  • リサイクル用の箱 【リサイクルようのはこ】 recycling bin, recycling box
  • 契約の箱 【けいやくのはこ】 Ark of the Covenant

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xiang1
Korean:
sang

Spanish

  • caja
  • cofre

Portuguese

  • caixa
  • tórax
  • caixa de papelão
  • depósito
  • carro de estrada de ferro

French

  • boîte
  • coffre
  • caisse
  • wagon
390 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
1703 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
944 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3425 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
935 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
799 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2383 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1091 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1142 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1060 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1486 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3362 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1741 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2366 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
951 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
26209 Morohashi
2711 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4331 New Nelson (John Haig)
942 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1013 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
435 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2379 2001 Kanji
6f9.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-9 SKIP code
8896.3 Four corner code
1-40-02 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7bb1 Unicode hex code