Jisho

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21 strokes
Radical:
fish
Parts:

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Kun reading compounds

  • 鰯 【いわし】 pilchard (esp. Japanese pilchard, Sardinops melanostictus), sardine
  • 鰯滓 【いわしかす】 fish cake (made from sardines, used as a fertilizer), sardine meal
  • 藤五郎鰯 【とうごろういわし】 flathead silverside (Hypoatherina valenciennei)
  • 赤鰯 【あかいわし】 pickled sardines, dried sardines, red sardines, rusty and blunt sword

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ruo4
Korean:
yag

Spanish

  • sardina

Portuguese

French

5318 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2367 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1665 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
46413X Morohashi
6904 New Nelson (John Haig)
2813 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2828 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
11a10.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-11-10 SKIP code
2732.7 Four corner code
1-16-83 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9c2f Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
oil, fat
Kun:
あぶら
On:
ユウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
690 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 油井 【ユセイ】 oil well
  • 油彩 【ユサイ】 oil painting
  • 重油 【ジュウユ】 heavy oil, fuel oil
  • 軽油 【ケイユ】 diesel oil, diesel fuel, gas oil, light oil
  • 油色 【ユショク】 coating a painting with a layer of transparent oil
  • 油然 【ユウゼン】 gushingly, freely (welling up), copiously

Kun reading compounds

  • 油 【あぶら】 oil
  • 油絵 【あぶらえ】 oil painting
  • 匂い油 【においあぶら】 perfumed hair oil
  • 機械油 【きかいあぶら】 machine oil

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
you2
Korean:
yu

Spanish

  • aceite
  • grasa

Portuguese

  • petróleo
  • gordura
  • óleo

French

  • huile
  • gras
522 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
422 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
400 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
689 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2534 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
298 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
671 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
593 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
364 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
365 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
624 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1183 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
400 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
255 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
303 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1116 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17253 Morohashi
341 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3106 New Nelson (John Haig)
1107 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1188 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
317 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
376 2001 Kanji
3a5.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
3516.0 Four corner code
1-44-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6cb9 Unicode hex code