Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
horse
Parts:
burdensome, pack horse, horse load, send by horse, trivial, worthless
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1500 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 駄 【ダ】 poor, low-grade, trivial, insignificant, worthless, load, pack, horse load, packhorse
  • 駄目 【ダメ】 no good, not serving its purpose, useless, broken, hopeless, wasted, in vain, purposeless, cannot, must not, not allowed, neutral point, intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game, no!, stop!
  • 雪駄 【セッタ】 leather-soled sandals (geta)
  • 足駄 【アシダ】 high clogs, rain clogs
  • 中下駄 【チュウゲタ】 medium height geta
  • 高下駄 【タカゲタ】 tall wooden clogs

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tuo2, duo4
Korean:
tae, ta

Spanish

  • caballo de carga
  • carga
  • aburrido

Portuguese

  • Incômodo
  • bando de cavalos
  • carga de cavalos
  • enviar a cavalo

French

  • fardeau
  • cheval de bât
  • charge de cheval
  • envoyé par cheval
1541 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1591 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5198 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1909 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1880 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2046 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1610 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1917 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2291 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1183 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1617 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2005 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
44633 Morohashi
1821 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6734 New Nelson (John Haig)
1986 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2140 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1744 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3463 2001 Kanji
10a4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-10-4 SKIP code
7433.0 Four corner code
1-34-44 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
99c4 Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
Variants:
book, present, main, origin, true, real, counter for long cylindrical things
Kun:
もと
On:
ホン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
10 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 本 【ホン】 book, volume, script, this, present, current, ... in question, ... at issue, main, head, principal, real, genuine, regular, proper, counter for long, cylindrical things, counter for films, TV shows, etc., counter for goals, home runs, etc., counter for telephone calls
  • 本位 【ホンイ】 standard, basis, principle
  • 社会資本 【シャカイシホン】 social capital, SOC
  • 配本 【ハイホン】 distribution of books

Kun reading compounds

  • 元 【もと】 origin, source, beginning, basis, base, foundation, root, cause, (raw) material, ingredient, base, mix (e.g. for a cake), (soup) stock, (one's) side, capital, principal, cost price, root (of a plant), (tree) trunk, part (of a brush, chopsticks, etc.) one holds (with the hand), first three lines of a waka, counter for plants or trees, counter for falcons (in falconry)
  • 本木 【もとき】 original stock
  • 大本 【おおもと】 root, origin, source, cause, basis, foundation, Ōmoto (religion)
  • 旗本 【はたもと】 shogunal vassal, direct retainer of a shogun

Readings

Japanese names:
まと、 ごう
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ben3
Korean:
bon

Spanish

  • libro
  • origen
  • base
  • contador de cosas alargadas

Portuguese

  • livro
  • presente
  • real
  • verdadeiro
  • principal
  • sufixo p/ contagem De coisas longas

French

  • livre
  • présent
  • essentiel
  • origine
  • principal
  • réalité
  • vérité
  • compteur d'objets allongés
45 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
76 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
70 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
15 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
96 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
20 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
61 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
212 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.1 Japanese for Busy People
25 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
25 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
37 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1046 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4314 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2183 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2937 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
215 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14421 Morohashi
3502 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2536 New Nelson (John Haig)
211 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
224 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
47 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1855 2001 Kanji
0a5.25 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-3 SKIP code
5023.0 Four corner code
1-43-60 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
672c Unicode hex code