Jisho

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17 strokes
Radical:
bird
Parts:
large bird, wild goose, large, great, powerful, prosperous
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2111 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 洪恩 【コウオン】 great debt of gratitude, great obligation
  • 鴻雁 【コウガン】 wild geese, large geese and small geese

Kun reading compounds

  • 大鳥 【おおとり】 large bird, peng (giant bird said to transform from a fish), fenghuang (Chinese phoenix)
  • 鴻 【ひしくい】 bean goose (Anser fabalis)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
hong2
Korean:
hong

Spanish

  • pájaro grande
  • ganso salvaje

Portuguese

French

2722 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2614 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2275 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
977 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
542 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
710 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
46874 Morohashi
6963 New Nelson (John Haig)
2313 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2406 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3a14.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-14 SKIP code
3712.7 Four corner code
1-25-67 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9d3b Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
small bird
Parts:
Variants:
wild goose
Kun:
かりかりがね
On:
ガン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2192 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 雁 【ガン】 wild goose, glans, head of a penis
  • 雁 【ガン】 Gan, The Wild Geese (1913 novel by Mori Ōgai)
  • ハワイ雁 【ハワイガン】 Hawaiian goose (Branta sandvicensis), nene
  • 鴻雁 【コウガン】 wild geese, large geese and small geese

Kun reading compounds

  • 雁 【がん】 wild goose, glans, head of a penis
  • 雁が音 【かりがね】 call of a wild goose, wild goose (esp. a lesser white-fronted goose, Anser erythropus), tea made from twigs of high-quality tea plants (esp. gyokuro), high-grade kukicha (esp. from gyokuro)
  • 雁が音 【かりがね】 call of a wild goose, wild goose (esp. a lesser white-fronted goose, Anser erythropus), tea made from twigs of high-quality tea plants (esp. gyokuro), high-grade kukicha (esp. from gyokuro)
  • 雁金草 【かりがねそう】 blue spirea (Caryopteris divaricata), blue mist shrub

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan4
Korean:
an

Spanish

  • ganso salvaje
  • oca salvaje

Portuguese

French

830 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3741 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2597 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
41960 Morohashi
6498 New Nelson (John Haig)
2150 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2273 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2p10.3 The Kanji Dictionary
3-2-10 SKIP code
7121.4 Four corner code
1-20-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
96c1 Unicode hex code