Jisho

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14 strokes
Radical:
ghost, demon
Parts:
soul, spirit
Kun:
たましいたま
On:
コン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1748 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 魂 【コン】 Yang energy, spirit
  • 魂胆 【コンタン】 ulterior motive, plot, scheme, complicated circumstances, intricacies
  • 鎮魂 【チンコン】 repose of a soul, ceremony for the repose of a departed soul
  • 入魂 【ニュウコン】 putting one's heart and soul (into), giving one's all, breathing a soul into (e.g. a Buddhist statue), intimacy, familiarity

Kun reading compounds

  • 魂 【たましい】 soul, spirit
  • 魂不死説 【たましいふしせつ】 (theory of) the immortality of the soul
  • 一寸の虫にも五分の魂 【いっすんのむしにもごぶのたましい】 tread on a worm and it will turn, even a tiny bug will defend itself, even the weakest and smallest beings have their own wills, so do not make light of them
  • 死せる魂 【しせるたましい】 Dead Souls (novel by Gogol), Myortvye dushi
  • 魂 【たましい】 soul, spirit
  • 魂送り 【たまおくり】 sending off the spirits of the dead
  • 稲魂 【うかのみたま】 the god of foodstuffs (esp. of rice)
  • 亡き魂 【なきたま】 departed soul, spirit

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hun2
Korean:
hon

Spanish

  • alma
  • espíritu
  • corazón

Portuguese

  • alma
  • espírito

French

  • âme
  • esprit
1280 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1655 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5278 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1584 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1917 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2488 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1525 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1626 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1754 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1927 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1346 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
729 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
975 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2040 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
45787 Morohashi
1063 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6835 New Nelson (John Haig)
2021 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2177 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1746 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3057 2001 Kanji
5f9.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-10 SKIP code
1671.3 Four corner code
1-26-18 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9b42 Unicode hex code

9 strokes (also 8)
Radical:
walk 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)
Parts:
escort, send
Kun:
おく.る
On:
ソウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
311 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 送球 【ソウキュウ】 throwing a ball, handball
  • 送還 【ソウカン】 sending home, repatriation, deportation
  • 葬送 【ソウソウ】 attending a funeral procession, seeing off the deceased, burial of someone's remains, observing a burial
  • 移送 【イソウ】 transfer, transport, transportation

Kun reading compounds

  • 送る 【おくる】 to send (a thing), to dispatch, to despatch, to transmit, to take or escort (a person somewhere), to see off (a person), to bid farewell (to the departed), to bury, to spend (time), to live one's life, to pass (down the line), to affix okurigana

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
song4
Korean:
song

Spanish

  • enviar
  • remitir
  • expedir

Portuguese

  • acompanhante
  • enviar

French

  • escorter
  • envoyer
268 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
349 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
331 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
220 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4683 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
192 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
260 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2.18 Japanese for Busy People
441 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
447 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
206 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
686 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3837 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1968 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2664 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2035 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38842P Morohashi
3093 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6039 New Nelson (John Haig)
2016 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2172 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
440 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
335 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
963 2001 Kanji
2q6.9 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-6 SKIP code
3-2-6 SKIP code
3830.3 Four corner code
1-33-87 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9001 Unicode hex code