Jisho

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Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鴛鴦 【オシドリ】 mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
  • 鴛鴦茶 【エンオウチャ】 drink of black tea mixed with coffee

Kun reading compounds

  • 鴛鴦 【おしどり】 mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
  • おしどり夫婦 【おしどりふうふ】 loving couple, couple of lovebirds, happily married couple (who are always together)
  • 鴛鴦 【おしどり】 mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
  • おしどり夫婦 【おしどりふうふ】 loving couple, couple of lovebirds, happily married couple (who are always together)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yuan1
Korean:
weon

Spanish

Portuguese

French

5346 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2572 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
46795 Morohashi
6953 New Nelson (John Haig)
11b5.9 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-11 SKIP code
2732.7 Four corner code
1-17-85 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9d1b Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鴛鴦 【オシドリ】 mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yang1
Korean:
ang

Spanish

Portuguese

French

5345 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
46822 Morohashi
6950 New Nelson (John Haig)
11b5.8 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-11 SKIP code
5032.7 Four corner code
1-82-83 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9d26 Unicode hex code

2 strokes
Radical:
knife, sword 刀 (刂)
Parts:
Variants:
sword, saber, knife
Kun:
かたなそり
On:
トウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N1
1794 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 刀 【カタナ】 sword (esp. Japanese single-edged), katana, scalpel, chisel, burin, graver, knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
  • 刀剣 【トウケン】 sword, dagger, knife, bayonet
  • 小刀 【コガタナ】 (small) knife, short sword, small sword
  • 太刀 【タチ】 long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai), large sword, straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier), guandao, Chinese glaive

Kun reading compounds

  • 刀 【かたな】 sword (esp. Japanese single-edged), katana, scalpel, chisel, burin, graver, knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
  • 刀折れ矢尽きて 【かたなおれやつきて】 having exhausted every available means, having broken one's sword and exhausted one's arrows
  • 一刀 【いっとう】 sword, blade, single stroke
  • 返す刀 【かえすかたな】 attacking one opponent then immediately attacking another
  • 剃刀 【かみそり】 razor
  • オッカムの剃刀 【オッカムのかみそり】 Occam's razor, Ockham's razor

Readings

Japanese names:
き、 ち、 と、 わき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
dao1
Korean:
do

Spanish

  • espada

Portuguese

  • espada
  • sabre
  • faca

French

  • épée
  • sabre
  • couteau
289 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
198 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
181 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1494 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
665 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
34 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1088 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
12 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
37 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
37 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
441 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
177 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3642 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1857 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2534 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
84 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1845 Morohashi
2926 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
448 New Nelson (John Haig)
83 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
87 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
81 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3545 2001 Kanji
2f0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-1-1 SKIP code
4-2-1 SKIP code
1722.0 Four corner code
1-37-65 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5200 Unicode hex code