Jisho

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18 strokes
Radical:
fish
Parts:
carp
Kun:
こい
On:
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2369 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 養鯉 【ヨウリ】 carp breeding

Kun reading compounds

  • 鯉 【こい】 common carp (Cyprinus carpio), koi carp
  • 鯉口 【こいぐち】 mouth of a (sword) sheath
  • 俎上の鯉 【そじょうのこい】 someone doomed to their fate, fish on the chopping board
  • まな板の上の鯉 【まないたのうえのこい】 someone doomed to their fate, fish on the chopping board

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li3
Korean:
ri

Spanish

  • carpa

Portuguese

French

  • carpe
5299 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1991 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2764 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2271 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2358 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1211 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1658 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
178 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
46182 Morohashi
1879 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6874 New Nelson (John Haig)
176 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
188 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
11a7.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-11-7 SKIP code
2631.4 Four corner code
1-24-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9bc9 Unicode hex code