Jisho

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Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 鸚哥 【インコ】 true parrot (esp. small parrots such as the parakeet, lory and conure)
  • 鸚鵡 【オウム】 (large) parrot (incl. the cockatoo)
  • 鸚鵡貝 【オウムガイ】 chambered nautilus (esp. species Nautilus pompilius)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ying1
Korean:
aeng

Spanish

Portuguese

French

5371 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3021 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
47489 Morohashi
7009 New Nelson (John Haig)
2830 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2845 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
11b17.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-17-11 SKIP code
6742.7 Four corner code
1-83-32 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9e1a Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 梟鸚鵡 【フクロウオウム】 kakapo (Strigops habroptila), owl parrot
  • 車冠鸚鵡 【クルマサカオウム】 Major Mitchell's cockatoo (Cacatua leadbeateri), Leadbeater's cockatoo

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wu3
Korean:
mu

Spanish

Portuguese

French

5355 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2820 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
46963X Morohashi
6974 New Nelson (John Haig)
2831 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2846 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
11b8.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-11 SKIP code
1712.7 Four corner code
1-44-25 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9d61 Unicode hex code

7 strokes
Radical:
shell
Parts:
Variants:
shellfish
Kun:
かい
On:
バイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N2
1787 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 貝 【バイ】 Japanese babylon (species of shelled mollusk, Babylonia japonica), Japanese ivory shell, spinning top (traditionally made from a Japanese babylon shell)
  • 貝貨 【バイカ】 shell money
  • 越虫貝 【エッチュウバイ】 finely-striate buccinum (species of whelk, Buccinum striatissimum)
  • 蝦夷貝 【エゾバイ】 Middendorf's whelk (Buccinum middendorffi)

Kun reading compounds

  • 貝 【かい】 shellfish, seashell, shell
  • 貝殻 【かいがら】 seashell, shell
  • 魚介 【ぎょかい】 marine products, seafood, fish and shellfish
  • パウア貝 【パウアかい】 paua (edible New Zealand abalone; species Haliotis iris, H. australis, H. virginea)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bei4
Korean:
pae

Spanish

  • concha

Portuguese

  • Marisco
  • conchas

French

  • coquillage
169 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
49 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
90 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1590 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4486 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
44 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
917 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
498 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
240 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
240 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
719 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1720 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3150 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1614 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2200 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
54 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
36656 Morohashi
2543 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5766 New Nelson (John Haig)
54 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
56 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
70 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3961 2001 Kanji
7b0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-5-2 SKIP code
6080.0 Four corner code
1-19-13 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8c9d Unicode hex code