Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
yellow
Parts:
yellow
Kun:
こ-
On:
コウオウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N2
1240 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 黄色 【キイロ】 yellow, amber
  • 黄昏 【タソガレ】 dusk, twilight, twilight years, melancholia, melancholic nostalgia
  • 玄黄 【ゲンコウ】 black and yellow silk (offered to gods), heaven and earth
  • 天地玄黄 【テンチゲンコウ】 heaven is black and earth is yellow, heaven and earth
  • 黄金時代 【オウゴンジダイ】 golden age
  • 黄金 【オウゴン】 gold (Au), golden, prosperous, excellent, superb, money (esp. ōban coin), cash
  • 卵黄 【ランオウ】 egg yolk
  • 六フッ化硫黄 【ロクフッカイオウ】 sulfur hexafluoride, SF6

Kun reading compounds

  • 黄 【き】 yellow
  • 黄色 【きいろ】 yellow, amber
  • 海気 【かいき】 sea air, sea breeze, ocean and atmosphere, type of yarn-dyed silk goods

Readings

Japanese names:
うい、 れい
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
huang2
Korean:
hwang

Spanish

  • amarillo

Portuguese

  • amarelo

French

  • jaune
214 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
133 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
120 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1063 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5399 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
469 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1021 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1499 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
780 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
794 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
993 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1939 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3116 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1596 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2177 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1766 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
47926P Morohashi
2468 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
7045 New Nelson (John Haig)
1750 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1887 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
203 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1961 2001 Kanji
3k8.16 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-7 SKIP code
2-9-2 SKIP code
2-3-8 SKIP code
4480.6 Four corner code
1-18-11 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9ec4 Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
oneself 己 (巳, 已, 㔾)
Parts:
comma-design
Kun:
ともえうずまき
On:
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2082 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 巴人 【ハジン】 uneducated bumpkin, resident of ancient Sichuan
  • 巴豆 【ハズ】 purging croton (Croton tiglium)

Kun reading compounds

  • 巴 【ともえ】 tomoe, heraldic design composed of two or more interlocked comma-shaped figures
  • 巴蛾 【ともえが】 Indian owlet-moth (Spirama retorta)
  • 卍巴 【まんじともえ】 (fighting) in a confused mass, (falling) in swirls, (falling) in whirls

Readings

Japanese names:
とも
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ba1
Korean:
pa

Spanish

  • remolino

Portuguese

French

263 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
97 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2061 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
4246 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2144 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2894 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
8745 Morohashi
3438 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1541 New Nelson (John Haig)
2096 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2237 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
0a4.16 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-1 SKIP code
3-1-3 SKIP code
7771.7 Four corner code
1-39-35 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5df4 Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
sun, day
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 旦過 【タンガ】 staying the night (of an itinerant priest in Zen Buddhism), itinerant priest's lodging, providing a room for an itinerant priest so that he may meditate for a long period of time
  • 旦日 【タンジツ】 tomorrow, tomorrow morning
  • 歳旦 【サイタン】 New Year's morning, morning of New Year's Day, New Year's Day
  • 昧旦 【マイタン】 dawn, daybreak
  • 旦那 【ダンナ】 master (of a house, shop, etc.), husband, sir, boss, master, governor, patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess, sugar daddy, alms, almsgiving, almsgiver
  • 旦つく 【ダンツク】 husband
  • 震旦 【シンタン】 (ancient) China

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
dan4
Korean:
dan

Spanish

  • alba
  • mañana
  • amanecer

Portuguese

French

  • aube
  • point du jour
  • aurore
1849 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2098 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1892 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
162 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2085 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2111 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3041 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1548 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2119 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
30 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
13734 Morohashi
2389 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2411 New Nelson (John Haig)
30 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
30 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4c1.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-1 SKIP code
6010.0 Four corner code
1-35-22 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
65e6 Unicode hex code