Jisho

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15 strokes
Radical:
wheat
Parts:
Variants:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 麹菌 【コウジキン】 koji mold (Aspergillus oryzae)
  • 麹塵 【キクジン】 yellow-green tinged with grey, emperor's informal robes
  • 製麹 【セイキク】 koji production

Kun reading compounds

  • 麹 【こうじ】 kōji, malted rice, malt, malt-like material from growing mold on rice, barley, beans, etc. (used as a starter to make sake, miso, soy sauce, etc.)
  • 【コウジカビ】 koji mold (Aspergillus oryzae)
  • 塩麹 【しおこうじ】 salted kōji (traditional condiment)
  • 麦麹 【むぎこうじ】 barley kōji

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qu1
Korean:
gug

Spanish

Portuguese

French

5388 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2858 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
47818X Morohashi
7036 New Nelson (John Haig)
2753 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2778 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6b13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-7-8 SKIP code
3-11-8 SKIP code
4740.2 Four corner code
4724.2 Four corner code
1-25-77 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9eb9 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
Variants:
germ, fungus, bacteria
On:
キン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1586 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 菌 【キン】 fungus, germ, bacterium, bacillus
  • 菌類 【キンルイ】 fungus, fungi
  • 球菌 【キュウキン】 coccus
  • 抗菌 【コウキン】 antibacterial, antimicrobial

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jun4, jun1
Korean:
gyun

Spanish

  • germen
  • hongo
  • bacteria

Portuguese

  • germe
  • fungo
  • bactérias

French

  • germe (microbien)
  • champignon
  • bactérie
1177 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1016 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3976 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1651 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1703 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1441 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1222 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1285 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1368 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
659 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2876 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1484 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2000 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
927 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
31156P Morohashi
2304 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5091 New Nelson (John Haig)
918 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
985 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1480 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1964 2001 Kanji
3k8.32 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-8 SKIP code
4460.0 Four corner code
1-22-61 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
83cc Unicode hex code