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

Speed

Stroke order

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

8 strokes
Radical:
lack, yawn
Parts:
Variants:
take pleasure in, rejoice
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
2071 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 欣栄 【キンエイ】 joy and glory, joyous glory, pleasure
  • 欣悦 【キンエツ】 joy, gladness
  • 欣求 【ゴング】 earnest aspiration (to go to paradise)
  • 欣求浄土 【ゴングジョウド】 seeking rebirth in the Pure Land

Kun reading compounds

  • 喜ぶ 【よろこぶ】 to be delighted, to be glad, to be pleased, to rejoice, to congratulate, to welcome (a proposal, advice, etc.), to take kindly to, to do with pleasure, to do gladly, to be happy (to do)

Readings

Japanese names:
やすし、 よし、 し
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xin1
Korean:
heun

Spanish

  • alegrarse
  • divertirse

Portuguese

French

2077 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1924 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
603 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2129 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1057 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
569 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
753 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
16008 Morohashi
852 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2930 New Nelson (John Haig)
2888 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2897 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4j4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-4 SKIP code
7728.2 Four corner code
1-22-53 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6b23 Unicode hex code