Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
wheat
Parts:
Variants:
barley, wheat
Kun:
むぎ
On:
バク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N2
1615 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 麦芽 【バクガ】 malt
  • 麦価 【バクカ】 price of wheat
  • 精麦 【セイバク】 polished barley or wheat
  • 米麦 【ベイバク】 rice and barley, corn

Kun reading compounds

  • 麦 【むぎ】 wheat, barley, oat (oats)
  • 麦茶 【むぎちゃ】 barley tea
  • はだか麦 【はだかむぎ】 naked barley (Hordeum vulgare var. nudum)
  • 毒麦 【どくむぎ】 darnel (Lolium temulentum)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mai4
Korean:
maeg

Spanish

  • cebada
  • trigo

Portuguese

  • cevada
  • trigo

French

  • orge
  • blé
128 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
213 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
194 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1411 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5385 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
816 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1020 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
456 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
270 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
270 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
637 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
400 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3061 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1559 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2133 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1547 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
47718 Morohashi
2408 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
7030 New Nelson (John Haig)
1533 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1653 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
152 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1467 2001 Kanji
4i4.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-3 SKIP code
5024.7 Four corner code
1-39-94 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9ea6 Unicode hex code

17 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
straw
Kun:
わら
On:
コウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2488 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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Kun reading compounds

  • 藁 【わら】 straw
  • 笑 【わら】 LOL, haha
  • 敷き藁 【しきわら】 (animal's) litter, bedding
  • 巻藁 【まきわら】 straw post for training sword strikes, karate punches and arrow hits

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gao3
Korean:
go

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4083 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2682 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3015 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2103 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
32222X Morohashi
5234 New Nelson (John Haig)
2400 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2480 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k14.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-14 SKIP code
2-4-14 SKIP code
4490.4 Four corner code
1-47-46 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
85c1 Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蜻蛉 【トンボ】 dragonfly, damselfly

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qing1
Korean:
cheong

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4157 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2128 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
33203 Morohashi
5341 New Nelson (John Haig)
6d8.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-8 SKIP code
5512.7 Four corner code
1-73-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
873b Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 螟蛉 【メイレイ】 hornworm, adopted child

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ling2
Korean:
ryeong

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4124 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
32969 Morohashi
5294 New Nelson (John Haig)
6d5.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-5 SKIP code
5813.7 Four corner code
1-73-57 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
86c9 Unicode hex code