| 1621 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 2834 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1160 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1131 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 2610 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1808 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 40164 | Morohashi |
| 2107 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 6215 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 2332 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1367 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
1761 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 釜山 【プサン】 Busan (South Korea), Pusan
- 釜中の魚 【フチュウノウオ】 fish in a pot about to be boiled, person who is blissfully unaware of deadly danger
Kun reading compounds
- 釜 【かま】 iron pot, kettle
- 釜揚げうどん 【かまあげうどん】 straight-from-the-pot udon, udon noodles pulled straight from the pot and served in the hot water used for boiling (traditionally without being soaked in cold water), eaten by dipping in sauce
- お釜 【おかま】 pot, (volcanic) crater, buttocks, effeminate gay man, male transvestite, (preoperative) transgender woman, (gay) male prostitute
- 一つ釜 【ひとつかま】 one or the same pot, eating or living together
Readings
- Korean:
- bu
Spanish
- caldero
- cacerola
- olla
Portuguese
French
| 2o8.7 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-2-8 | SKIP code |
| 2-4-6 | SKIP code |
| 8010.9 | Four corner code |
| 1-19-88 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 91dc | Unicode hex code |