Title: @MahKanji / Radicals

Kanji print: 鼠
Frequency: 10208
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ソ、 ショ
訓読み / Kun reading: ねずみ、 ねず
KKD2013: 3340
Halpern Core: RAT, mouse
English meaning: rat, mouse, dark gray
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 208 - rat, mouse 鼠
Compounds: 天竺鼠
RADICAL
nezumi ‘rat’, used in characters related to rats, mice or similar animals
Enclosure: nezuminyō ( 鼬 )
窮鼠 [キュウソ] cornered mouse
殺鼠剤 [さっそざい] rat poison
On reading compounds
鼠疫 【ソエキ】 plague, pest
鼠害 【ソガイ】 damage by rats or mice
海鼠 【ナマコ】 sea cucumber (Holothuroidea spp.)
飛鼠 【ヒソ】 bat (animal)
Kun reading compounds
鼠 【ねずみ】 mouse, rat, dark gray, dark grey, slate (color, colour)
鼠穴 【ねずみあな】 rathole, mousehole
藍鼠 【あいねずみ】 indigo-tinged grey, indigo-tinged gray
臭鼠 【においねずみ】 muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus)
鼠 【ねずみ】 mouse, rat, dark gray, dark grey, slate (color, colour)
鼠子 【ねずこ】 Japanese arborvitae (Thuja standishii)
梅鼠 【うめねず】 grayish pink, rose grey
茶鼠 【ちゃねずみ】 grey tinged with brown (gray)
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): shu3
Parts: 臼 鼠  //  Variants: 鼡 用 尚
画数 / Stroke count: 13

Kanji print: 疋
Frequency: 10103
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 9
音読み / On reading: ヒキ、 ショ、 ソ、 ヒツ
訓読み / Kun reading: あし
KKD2013: 4292
Halpern Core: UNIT OF MEASURE FOR CLOTH equiv. to 2 tan ( 反 ); counter for animals
English meaning: head, counter for animals
(radical 103 - bolt of cloth)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 103 - bolt of cloth 疋 (⺪)
Phonetic: テイ, ヒキ、 ショ、 ソ、 ヒツ - 疋 - bolt of cloth
MAH-Story: TCGTJ2016-1574: 正, 疋, and 足(‘leg’) might have been the same graph
Compounds: On reading compounds
匹 【ヒキ】 counter for small animals, counter for rolls of cloth (two han in size), counter for horses, roll of cloth
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): pi3, shu1, ya3
画数 / Stroke count: 5

Kanji print: 禾
Frequency: 10115
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 9
音読み / On reading: カ
訓読み / Kun reading: いね
KKD2013: 4315
Halpern Core: CEREAL, nogi ‘growing grain’ ( 秀 穀 穎 ), used in characters related to grains or rice plants
Left variant: nogihen ( 私 税 科 )
English meaning: two-branch tree radical (no. 115)
ノ木偏 - のぎへん
grain stalk radical at left (radical 115); two-branch tree radical at left
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 115 - grain 禾 - のぎ・のぎへん - ノ木偏
Phonetic: 禾 - カ - nogi, two-branch tree radical (no. 115)
Compounds: ノ木偏 / 禾偏【のぎへん】grain stalk radical at left (radical 115); two-branch tree radical at left​
On reading compounds
禾穀類 【カコクルイ】 cereal crops
カホン科 【カホンカ】 Poaceae, Gramineae, family of flowering plants
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): he2
Parts: 木 禾 ノ
画数 / Stroke count: 5

Kanji print: 冖
Frequency: 10014
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ベキ
KKD2013: 4160
Halpern Core: WAKANMURI, cover,used in charactersrelated to covering or covers
English meaning: wa-shaped crown radical (no. 14)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 14 - cover 冖
Compounds: RADICAL: wakanmuri ‘cover’ ( 写 冠 冗 ), used in characters related to covering or covers
On reading compounds
冖冠 【ベキカンムリ】 kanji "wa" radical at top (radical 14)
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): mi4
画数 / Stroke count: 2

Kanji print: 戈
Frequency: 10062
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: カ
訓読み / Kun reading: ほこ、 ほこづくり
KKD2013: 4274
Halpern Core: ancient Chinese DAGGER-AX (consisting of a long shaft with a double- edged blade attached crosswise to its end)
English meaning: halberd, arms, festival car, float, tasselled spear radical (no. 62)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 62 - spear, halberd 戈
Phonetic: カ - 戈 - spear, halberd
Compounds: RADICAL: kanohoko ‘spear’ ( 戦 成 戒 ), used in characters related to weapons or fighting
On reading compounds
戈 【カ】 ge (ancient Chinese dagger-axe)
兵戈 【ヘイカ】 swords, arms, warfare
銅戈 【ドウカ】 bronze dagger-axe
Kun reading compounds
矛 【ほこ】 long-handled Chinese spear, lance, pike, weapon, arms, grip of a bow, parade float decorated with long-handled Chinese spears
戈構え 【ほこがまえ】 kanji "spear" radical at right
戈旁 【ほこづくり】 kanji "spear" radical at right
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 几
Frequency: 10016
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: キ
訓読み / Kun reading: きにょう
KKD2013: 4156
Halpern Core: DESK, small table
English meaning: table, table enclosure, table or windy radical (no. 16)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 16 - table 几
Phonetic: キ - 几 - table, table enclosure, table or windy radical (no. 16)
Compounds: Radical: tsukue ‘table’ ( 凡 処 凱 ), used in characters related to laying on, leaning against or wind
Enclosure: ⺇ kazagamae ( 凧 凰 凪 )
几帳面 [キチョウメン] methodical, punctual, steady
On reading compounds
几 【オシマズキ】 armrest, desk, table
机上 【キジョウ】 on the desk, theoretical, academic, armchair (e.g. plan), desktop, paper, not yet implemented
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): ji1, ji3
Parts: 几  //  ⺇
画数 / Stroke count: 2

Kanji print: 厶
Frequency: 10028
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: シ、 ボウ、 ム
訓読み / Kun reading: わたくし、 ござ.る
KKD2013: 4183
Halpern Core: MU; oneself
English meaning: I, myself, katakana mu radical (no. 28)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 28 -private 厶
Phonetic: シ、 ボウ、 ム - I, myself, katakana mu radical (no. 28)
Compounds: RADICAL: mu ‘oneself’ ( 参 去 ), used for character classification
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): si1
画数 / Stroke count: 2

Kanji print: 歹
Frequency: 10078
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ガツ、 ガチ、 タイ
English meaning: bare bone, bad, wrong ( radical 78 - death )
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 78 - death, decay 歹 (歺)
Compounds: On reading compounds
歹偏 【ガツヘン】 kanji "bare bone" radical at left
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 艮
Frequency: 10138
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: コン、 ゴン
訓読み / Kun reading: うしとら
KKD2013: 4330
Halpern Core: NORTHEAST, phonetic gon
English meaning: northeast (Oriental zodiac), stopping, good radical (no. 138)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 138 - stopping 艮
Phonetic: コン、 ゴン - 艮 - stopping, NORTHEAST, good, phonetic gon
Compounds: RADICAL: kon or ushitora ‘northeast’ ( 良 ), used for character classification
Variant: kon or ushitora ( 艱 )
On reading compounds
艮 【ゴン】 gen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: mountain, northeast)
艮下艮上 【ゴンカゴンショウ】 one of the 64 trigrams
儒艮 【ジュゴン】 dugong (Dugong dugon), sea pig
Kun reading compounds
丑寅 【うしとら】 northeast
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): gen4, gen3
画数 / Stroke count: 6

Kanji print: 黽
Frequency: 10205
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ボウ、 ビン、 ベン、 ミン、 メン
訓読み / Kun reading: あおがえる、 つと.める
KKD2013: 4404
Halpern Core: FROG, toad; [archaic] make an effort, exert oneself
English meaning: green frog, industry
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 205 - frog, amphibian 黽
Compounds: Radical: ben ‘frog’ ( 鼇,鼈 ), used in characters related tofrogs or toads
On reading compounds
蛙黽 【アボウ】 tree frog (toad)
水黽 【アメンボ】 pond skater (any insect of family Gerridae), water strider
黽勉 【ビンベン】 industry, diligence
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): min3, mian3
画数 / Stroke count: 13

Kanji print: 隶
Frequency: 10171
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: タイ
KKD2013: 4386
Halpern Core: REIZUKURI; capture
English meaning: extend, give, cast, slave radical (no. 171)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 171 - slave, capture 隶
Phonetic: タイ - 隶 - REIZUKURI; capture, extend, give, cast, slave radical
MAH-Story: reizukuri ‘capture’ ( 隷 ), used in characters related tocapturing
画数 / Stroke count: 8

Kanji print: 韋
Frequency: 10178
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: イ
訓読み / Kun reading: そむ.く
English meaning: tanned leather radical (no. 178)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 178 - tanned leather 韋
Phonetic: イ - 韋 -tanned leather radical (no. 178)
Compounds: On reading compounds
吠陀 【ヴェーダ】 Veda
韋陀天 【イダテン】 Wei-To (temple guardian sometimes confused with Vajrapani)
Parts: 韋 口
画数 / Stroke count: 10

Kanji print: 耒
Frequency: 10127
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ライ、 ルイ
訓読み / Kun reading: き、 く、 すき
KKD2013: 4345
Halpern Core: RAISUKI, plough
English meaning: come, plough, three-branch tree radical (no. 127)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 127 - plow 耒
Compounds: RADICAL: raisuki ‘plow’, used in characters related to farm implements or farming
Left variant: raihen ( 耕 耗 )
Left variant: sukihen ( 耘 耡 )
On reading compounds
耒 【ライスキ】 kanji "plow" or "three-branch tree" radical
耒耜 【ライシ】 spade
Kun reading compounds
耒偏 【すきへん】 kanji "plow" or "three-branch tree" radical
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): lei3
Parts: 木 耒 ｜ ノ ハ
画数 / Stroke count: 6

Kanji print: 辵
Frequency: 10162
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: チャク
KKD2013: 2444
Halpern Core: SHINNYŌ, SHINNYŪ
English meaning: walk, walking, road radical (no. 162)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 162 - walk 辵 (辶, 辶) - しんにょう・しんにゅう
Compounds: shinnyō or shinnyū ‘advance’, used in charactersrelated to advancing or going
Enclosures: 辶 辶 shinnyō or shinnyū ( 込 辺 迄
Parts: 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)  //  Variant: 辶
画数 / Stroke count: 7

Kanji print: 幺
Frequency: 10052
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ヨウ
訓読み / Kun reading: ちいさい
KKD2013: 4234
Halpern Core: ITOGASHIRA
English meaning: short thread radical (no. 52)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 52 - short, tiny 幺
Phonetic: ヨウ - 幺 - short thread
Compounds: RADICAL: itogashira ‘tiny’ ( 幼 幾 幽 ), used in characters related to threads, dimness or slightness
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): yao1
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 斤
Frequency: 10069
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 8
音読み / On reading: キン
訓読み / Kun reading: -
KKD2013: 3667
Halpern Core: [orig, arch] axe; kin (or CATTY): unit of weight equiv. to 600g or 160 momme ( 匁 )
English meaning: axe, 1.32 lb, catty, counter for loaves of bread, axe radical (no. 69)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 69 -axe 斤
Phonetic: キン - 斤 - axe
Compounds: On reading compounds
斤 【キン】 unit of weight ~600g, pound (unit of mass: 453.6g), loaf (of bread)
斤量 【キンリョウ】 weight
一斤 【イッキン】 1 kin (~0.6kg), 1 loaf of bread
斧斤 【フキン】 axe
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): jin1
JLPT level: N1
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 聿
Frequency: 10129
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: イチ、 イツ
訓読み / Kun reading: ふで、 ここに
KKD2013: 4346
Halpern Core: FUDEZUKURI, brush
English meaning: brush, finally, self, relate, follow, here, fast, writing brush radical (no. 129)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 129 - brush 聿 (⺻)
Compounds: Kun reading compounds
聿旁 【ふでづくり】 kanji "brush" radical
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): yu4
Parts: RADICAL: fudezukuri ‘brush’ ( 粛 肇 肆 ), used in characters related to writing with a brush
画数 / Stroke count: 6

Kanji print: 爿
Frequency: 10090
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ショウ、 ソウ
English meaning: left-side kata radical (no. 90)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 90 - split wood 爿
Phonetic: ショウ、 ソウ - 爿 - half of tree trunk
Compounds: 丬half of tree trunk, rad. no. 90
On reading compounds
爿偏 【ショウヘン】 kanji radical 90 at left
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 彳
Frequency: 10060
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: テキ
訓読み / Kun reading: たたず.む
KKD2013: 2427
Halpern Core: GYŌNINBEN
English meaning: stop, linger, loiter, going man radical (no. 60)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 60 - step 彳
Compounds: 彳-行人偏 [ギョウニンベン]gyōninben ‘locomotion’ ( 後 得 彼 ), used in characters related to locomotion or roads
On reading compounds
彳亍 【テキチョク】 stopping in one's tracks, standing still
Kun reading compounds
佇む 【たたずむ】 to stand (still) a while, to loiter, to stop
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): chi4
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 夂
Frequency: 10034
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: チ
訓読み / Kun reading: しゅう
English meaning: late, delayed, winter radical (no. 34)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 34 - go 夂
Parts: 攵 夂
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 釆
Frequency: 10165
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ハン、 ベン、 サイ
訓読み / Kun reading: と.る、 いろどり、 のごめ
KKD2013: 4370
Halpern Core: NOGOME - ‘separate’, used in characters related to separating
English meaning: separate, divide, topped rice radical (no. 165)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 165 - divide, distinguish, choose 釆
Phonetic: ハン、 ベン、 サイ - 釆 - separate, divide, topped rice radical (no. 165) (voiced)
Compounds: Kun reading compounds
釆偏 【のごめへん】 kanji "topped rice" radical (radical 165)
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: うね
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): bian4
Parts: 米 釆
画数 / Stroke count: 7

Kanji print: 乚
Frequency: 10005
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: イン、 オン
訓読み / Kun reading: かく.す、 かく.れる、 かか.す、 よ.る
English meaning: hidden, mysterious, secret, to conceal, small, minute, fishhook radical variant (no. 5)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 5 - second 乛 (乙, ⺄, 乚)
Compounds: On reading compounds
乙 【オツ】 second (party to an agreement), the B party (e.g. in a contract), the latter, defendant, stylish, chic, spicy, witty, tasty, romantic, strange, quaint, queer, thank you, good job, goodbye, goodnight
乙亥 【キノトイ】 twelfth of the sexagenary cycle
うｐ乙 【ウプオツ】 thanks for uploading, expression of gratitude used primarily on video-sharing websites (esp. Niconico)
甲と乙 【コウトオツ】 the former and the latter, A and B
乙亥 【キノトイ】 twelfth of the sexagenary cycle
乙未 【キノトヒツジ】 thirty-second of the sexagenary cycle
不一 【フイツ】 Very sincerely yours, different
Kun reading compounds
乙 【きのと】 second in rank, second sign of the Chinese calendar
乙亥 【きのとい】 twelfth of the sexagenary cycle
Parts: 乙
画数 / Stroke count: 1

Kanji print: 卩
Frequency: 10026
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: セツ
訓読み / Kun reading: わりふ
KKD2013: 4165
Halpern Core: FUSHIZUKURI, seal, used in characters related to actions performed while kneeling
English meaning: seal (Siegel) radical (no. 26 - kneel)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 26 - kneel 卩
Compounds: RADICAL: fushizukuri ‘seal’ ( 印 卵 卸 ), used in characters related to actions performed while kneeling
Variant: 㔾 fushizukuri ( 危 卮卷 )
Kun reading compounds
卩 【わりふ】 kanji "seal" radical (radical 26)
曲げ卩 【まげわりふ】 kanji "crooked seal" radical at right (variant of radical 26)
Parts: 卩  //  Variant:㔾
画数 / Stroke count: 2

Kanji print: 冫
Frequency: 10015
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ヒョウ
訓読み / Kun reading: こおり
KKD2013: 2422
Halpern Core: NISUI
English meaning: two-stroke water radical or ice radical (no. 15)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 15 - ice 冫
Compounds: RADICAL: nisui ‘ice’ ( 冷 冴 凍 ), used in characters related to freezing or cold
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): bing1
画数 / Stroke count: 2

Kanji print: 齊
Frequency: 10210
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 9
音読み / On reading: セイ、 サイ
訓読み / Kun reading: そろ.う、 ひと.しい、 ひと.しく、 あたる、 はやい
KKD2013: (2548)
Halpern Core: UNIFORM, equal, even, symmetrical
English meaning: alike, equal, similar, Saito
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 210 - even, uniformly 齊
Compounds: -
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): qi2
Parts: 氏 齊 亠 刀 廾  //  Variants: 斉 亝 斊
画数 / Stroke count: 14

Kanji print: 癶
Frequency: 10105
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ハツ
KKD2013: 0044
Halpern Core: HATSUGASHIRA‘spread legs’
English meaning: dotted tent radical (footsteps - no. 105)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 105 - footsteps 癶
MAH-Story: TCGTJK2016: 癶 spring from, start;tread or stepheavily
Compounds: RADICAL:hatsugashira ‘spread legs’ ( 発 登 癸), used forcharacter classification
On reading compounds
発頭 【ハツガシラ】 kanji "dotted tent" radical (radical 105)
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): bo1
画数 / Stroke count: 5

Kanji print: 尢
Frequency: 10043
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: オウ
Halpern Core: MAGEASHI
English meaning: crooked-big radical (no. 43)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 43 - lame 尢 (尣) - だいのまげあし (大の曲げ足)
Compounds: mageashi: ‘lame’ ( 就 尤 尨), used in charactersrelated to lameness or physical disability
Parts: 尢  //  Variants: 尣
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 儿
Frequency: 10010
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ジン、 ニン
訓読み / Kun reading: がい
KKD2013: 0003
Halpern Core: NINNYŌ, HITOASHI
English meaning: legs radical (no. 10) - にんにょう、ひとあし
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 10 - legs 儿
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): er2, ren2
画数 / Stroke count: 2

Kanji print: 巛
Frequency: 10047
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: セン
訓読み / Kun reading: かわ
KKD2013: 0009
Halpern Core: magarigawa
English meaning: curving river radical (no.47)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 47 - river 巛 (川, 巜)
Compounds: On reading compounds
川柳 【センリュウ】 senryu, comic haiku, humorous seventeen-syllable poem
川きゅう 【センキュウ】 cnidium rhizome (Cnidium officinale)
山川 【サンセン】 mountains and rivers
四川 【シセン】 Sichuan (China), Szechuan, Szechwan
Kun reading compounds
川 【かわ】 river, stream, River, the ... river
川上 【かわかみ】 upper reaches of a river, upstream
堀川 【ほりかわ】 canal
山川 【さんせん】 mountains and rivers
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: か、 こ、 さわ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): chuan1
JLPT level: N5
画数 / Stroke count: 3
Other fields (not shown on cards):
Kanji shorthand: -

Kanji print: 而
Frequency: 10126
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 9
音読み / On reading: ジ、 ニ
訓読み / Kun reading: しこ.うして、 しか.して、 しか.も、 しか.れども、 すなわち、 なんじ、 しかるに
KKD2013: 2520
Halpern Core: DIRECTION WORD indicating direction in spaceor time,[original meaning, now obsolete] beard
English meaning: and yet, and then, but, however, nevertheless,shikashite ‘beard’ ( 耐 ), used for character classification
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 126 - beard 而
Compounds: 而して/然して 【そして】 and, and then, thus, and now, and finally
shikashite ‘beard’ ( 耐 ), used for character classification
On reading compounds
自今 【ジコン】 from now on, hereafter
而今而後 【ジコンジゴ】 in the future, from now on, henceforth, hereafter
Kun reading compounds
然して 【そして】 and, and then, thus, and now, and finally
然も 【しかも】 moreover, furthermore, nevertheless, and yet
然るに 【しかるに】 however, still, but
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): er2
画数 / Stroke count: 6

Kanji print: 鬥
Frequency: 10191
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
KKD2013: 1497
Halpern Core: TŌGAMAE
English meaning: broken gate radical (no. 191)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 191 - fight 鬥
Compounds: RADICALtōgamae ‘fight’
( 鬨鬪 鬧 ), used in charactersrelated to fighting
闘構え - [とうがま] -kanji "fighting" radical​
画数 / Stroke count: 10

Kanji print: 隹
Frequency: 10172
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: サイ、 スイ
訓読み / Kun reading: とり
KKD2013: 4383
Halpern Core: FURUTORI, (‘small bird’)
English meaning: bird, old bird radical (no. 172)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 172 - small bird 隹
Phonetic: サイ、 スイ -隹 - FURUTORI, (‘small bird’)
Compounds: furutori ‘small bird’ ( 集 雅 雀 ), used in charactersrelated to small birds or their qualities
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): zhui1
画数 / Stroke count: 8

Kanji print: 爻
Frequency: 10089
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: コウ、 ギョウ
訓読み / Kun reading: まじ.わる
KKD2013: 2483
Halpern Core: MEME
English meaning: to mix with, to associate with, to join, double X radical (no. 89)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 89 - mix, twine, cross 爻
MAH-Story: { compare: 爻 ->交 }
Compounds: Radical: meme ‘crisscross’, used for character classification: 爻 meme ( 爼爽 爾 )
On reading compounds
爻 【コウ】 yao (line representing yin or yang that comprises one third of a trigram)
爻辞 【コウジ】 commentary (on any of the 384 lines of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes)
陽爻 【ヨウコウ】 yang yao (unbroken line composing one third of a trigram)
陰爻 【インコウ】 yin yao (broken line composing one third of a trigram)
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): yao2
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 豕
Frequency: 10152
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: シ
KKD2013: 4357
Halpern Core: SWINE
English meaning: pig, hog, pig radical (no. 152)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 152 - pig 豕
Compounds: On reading compounds
魯魚亥豕 【ロギョガイシ】 miswriting a word, using the wrong kanji to write a word
画数 / Stroke count: 7

Kanji print: 广
Frequency: 10053
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ゲン
KKD2013: 4235
Halpern Core: MADARE
English meaning: dotted cliff radical (no. 53)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 53 - house on cliff 广 - まだれ - 麻垂れ
Compounds: madare ‘roof’ ( 府 広 庁 ), used in characters related to roofs or buildings
广部 [ゲンブ] Radical 53​
Radical 53 meaning "house on cliff" is 1 of 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 15 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 刀
刂
Frequency: 10018
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: トウ
訓読み / Kun reading: かたな、 そり
KKD2013: 3642
Halpern Core: [orig] (single-edged) SWORD;cutting tool, knife, blade, -tome
English meaning: knife, standing sword radical (no. 18)
sword, saber, knife
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 18 - knife, sword 刀 (刂)
Compounds: katana ‘sword’ ( 分 切 剪 ), used in characters relatedto swords, cutting tools or cutting
Right variant: 刂 rittō ( 利 判 別 )
On reading compounds
刀 【カタナ】 (single-edged) sword, katana, dagger, knife, scalpel, chisel, burin, graver, knife money, knife-shaped commodity money used in Zhou dynasty China
刀剣 【トウケン】 sword, dagger, knife, bayonet
小刀 【コガタナ】 (small) knife, short sword, small sword
太刀 【タチ】 long sword
Kun reading compounds
刀 【かたな】 (single-edged) sword, katana, dagger, knife, scalpel, chisel, burin, graver, knife money, knife-shaped commodity money used in Zhou dynasty China
刀折れ矢尽きて 【かたなおれやつきて】 having exhausted every available means, having broken one's sword and exhausted one's arrows
一刀 【いっとう】 sword, blade, single stroke
剃刀 【かみそり】 razor
オッカムの剃刀 【オッカムのかみそり】 Occam's razor, Ockham's razor
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: き、 ち、 と、 わき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): dao1
Parts: 刂刀
JLPT level: N1
Other fields (not shown on cards):
Kanji shorthand: -

Kanji print: 丶
Frequency: 10003
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: チュ
English meaning: dot, tick or dot radical (no. 3)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 3 - dot 丶
画数 / Stroke count: 1

Kanji print: 匕
Frequency: 10021
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ヒ
訓読み / Kun reading: さじ
English meaning: spoon, spoon or katakana hi radical (no. 21)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 21 -spoon 匕
Compounds: On reading compounds
匕首 【アイクチ】 dagger, dirk
匕箸 【ヒチョ】 spoon and chopsticks
石匕 【セキヒ】 stone knife (Jomon-period tool, shaped like a rice spoon)
Kun reading compounds
匙 【さじ】 spoon
画数 / Stroke count: 2

Kanji print: 巾
Frequency: 10050
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 8
音読み / On reading: キン、 フク
訓読み / Kun reading: はば, おお.い、 ちきり、 きれ
KKD2013: 4217
Halpern Core: [orig] CLOTH, napkin; headgear
English meaning: towel, hanging scroll, width, cloth radical (no. 50)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 50 - turban, scarf 巾
Phonetic: ( はば - 巾 - CLOTH )
Compounds: RADICAL: haba ‘cloth’ ( 布 帳 師 ), used in characters related to fabrics or their qualities
雑巾(ぞうきん): dust cloth
布巾(ふきん): tea-towel, dish cloth
On reading compounds
巾 【キン】 napkin, cloth
巾単 【キンタン】 unipotent
三角巾 【サンカクキン】 triangular bandage, sling, triangular kerchief, bandana, bandanna
防災頭巾 【ボウサイズキン】 disaster hood, protective hood worn during earthquakes and other disasters (e.g. to protect from falling objects)
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): jin1
Parts: ｜ 冂 巾
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 殳
Frequency: 10079
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: シュ
訓読み / Kun reading: また、 ほこ
KKD2013: 2472
Halpern Core: RUMATA, HOKOZUKURI
English meaning: pike, windy-again radical (no. 79)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 79 - weapon, lance 殳
MAH-Story: 殳, another form of ‘hand holding something to strike with’
Compounds: RADICAL: rumata or hokozukuri ‘club’ ( 段 殺 殿 ), used in characters related to beating or killing
Kun reading compounds
殳旁 【ほこづくり】 kanji radical 79 at right
Parts: 殳 几 又
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 厂
Frequency: 10027
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: カン
訓読み / Kun reading: かりがね
KKD2013: 4166
Halpern Core: GANDARE
English meaning: wild goose, trailing cliff radical (no. 27)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 27 - cliff 厂
MAH-Story: { compare: 岸 beach }
Compounds: RADICAL: 厂gandare ‘cliff’ ( 原 厚 厘 ), used in characters related tocliffs, rocks or stones
Parts: 厂  //  Variants: 厈
画数 / Stroke count: 2

Kanji print: 屮
Frequency: 10045
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: テツ、 サ
訓読み / Kun reading: ひだりて
意味: ①め。めばえる。 ②くさ（草）。
［参考］草の芽生える形からできた字。
English meaning: left hand, old grass radical (no. 45)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 45 - sprout 屮 - てつ
Compounds: (basis for top of 海, like 乞 beg) <- Heisig in Japanisch im Mangaland
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): che4
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 冂
Frequency: 10013
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: キョウ、 ケイ
KKD2013: 4159
Halpern Core: KEIGAMAE, border
English meaning: upside-down box radical (no. 13)
冂構え -まきがまえ
kanji radical 13 ("upside-down box")​
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 13 - open country 冂
Phonetic: 冂  //  Variants: 冋
Compounds: RADICAL: keigamae ‘border’ ( 内 円 再 ), used for character classification
画数 / Stroke count: 2

Kanji print: 門
Frequency: 10169
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: モン
訓読み / Kun reading: かど、 と
KKD2013: 1100
Halpern Core: GATE, mon or mongamae ‘gate’ ( 間 開 関 ), used in characters related to gates, doors or outer enclosures
English meaning: 門構え -もんがまえ -kanji "gate" radical (radical 169)​
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 169 - gate 門
Compounds: On reading compounds
門 【モン】 gate, branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master, division, phylum, counter for cannons
門下 【モンカ】 one's pupil or student or follower
入門 【ニュウモン】 entering an institution, beginning training, primer, manual, introduction (to)
宗門 【シュウモン】 doctrine, creed, sect
Kun reading compounds
門 【もん】 gate, branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master, division, phylum, counter for cannons
門出 【かどで】 leaving one's own house (e.g. when going to war), departure, setting out, starting a new life, starting life anew
帝 【みかど】 emperor (of Japan), mikado, (the gates of an) imperial residence
戸 【と】 door (esp. Japanese-style), shutter, window shutter, entrance (to a home), narrows
門浪 【となみ】 waves in narrow straits
鳴門 【なると】 strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow, whirlpool, maelstrom, kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern, cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern, Naruto, city in NE Tokushima pref, Naruto Strait, Naruto wakame
顎門 【あぎと】 chin, jaw, gills, branchia
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 8
Other fields (not shown on cards):
Kanji shorthand: -

Kanji print: 老
耂
Frequency: 10125
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 4
音読み / On reading: ロウ
訓読み / Kun reading: お.いる、 ふ.ける
English meaning: 老冠 - おいかんむり - kanji "old" radical at top
老頭 - おいがしら - kanji "old" radical at top
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 125 - old 老 (耂)
Compounds: On reading compounds
老 【ロウ】 old age, age, old people, the old, the aged, senior, elder
老化 【ロウカ】 ageing, aging, senile deterioration
養老 【ヨウロウ】 making provision for the elderly, Yōrō era (717.11.17-724.2.4)
敬老 【ケイロウ】 respect for the aged
Kun reading compounds
老いる 【おいる】 to age, to grow old
老ける 【ふける】 to age, to grow old (esp. in appearance), to show marks of age
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: えび、 おい、 び
Parts: 匕 老
JLPT level: N3
画数 / Stroke count: 8 / 6
Other fields (not shown on cards):
Kanji shorthand: -

Kanji print: 西
Frequency: 10146
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: セイ、 サイ、 ス
訓読み / Kun reading: にし
KKD2013: 4333
Halpern Core: WEST
English meaning: west, Spain
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 146 - west 西 (襾, 覀)
Compounds: 覀 <-‘stopper, cover’ variant
On reading compounds
西 【セイ】 Spain
西遊記 【サイユウキ】 Monkey (Monkey King, Magic Monkey), Journey to the West (classic of Chinese literature)
南西 【ナンセイ】 southwest
北北西 【ホクホクセイ】 north-northwest
西遊記 【サイユウキ】 Monkey (Monkey King, Magic Monkey), Journey to the West (classic of Chinese literature)
西方 【セイホウ】 western direction, Western Pure Land (Amitabha's Buddhist paradise), western fighter in a match (e.g. sumo)
西瓜 【スイカ】 watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)
西班牙 【スペイン】 Spain
Kun reading compounds
西 【にし】 west
西方 【せいほう】 western direction, Western Pure Land (Amitabha's Buddhist paradise), western fighter in a match (e.g. sumo)
南西 【なんせい】 southwest
東は東西は西 【ひがしはひがしにしはにし】 East is East, and West is West
JLPT level: N5
画数 / Stroke count: 6
Other fields (not shown on cards):
Kanji shorthand: -

Kanji print: 糸
Frequency: 10120
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: シ
訓読み / Kun reading: いと
English meaning: 糸偏 -いとへん -kanji "thread" radical at left​
thread/silk (radical 120)
thread, yarn, string
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 120 - silk 糸 (糹)
Compounds: On reading compounds
糸 【シ】 thread, 0.001, one ten-thousandth
糸価 【シカ】 price of silk thread
蚕糸 【サンシ】 silk thread, silk yarn
金糸 【キンシ】 gold thread
Kun reading compounds
糸 【いと】 thread, yarn, string
糸口 【いとぐち】 thread end, beginning, clue
横糸 【よこいと】 weft, woof (crosswise threads on a loom)
生糸 【きいと】 raw silk thread
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Parts: 小 幺 糸
Variants: 絲
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 6

Kanji print: 爪
Frequency: 10087
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 8
音読み / On reading: ソウ
訓読み / Kun reading: つめ、 つま-
English meaning: 爪冠 -つめかんむり -kanji "claw" radical at top​ (87)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 87 - claw 爪 (爫)
Compounds: On reading compounds
爪牙 【ソウガ】 claws and fangs, claws and tusks, clutches, devious design, means of causing harm, weapon, pawn, stooge, cat's-paw, right-hand man
爪繞 【ソウニョウ】 kanji "claw" radical at left
陥入爪 【カンニュウソウ】 ingrown nail, ingrowing nail
狼爪 【ロウソウ】 dewclaw
Kun reading compounds
爪 【つめ】 nail (e.g. fingernail, toenail), claw, talon, hoof, plectrum, pick, hook, clasp
爪切り 【つめきり】 nail clippers
陥入爪 【かんにゅうそう】 ingrown nail, ingrowing nail
鷹の爪 【たかのつめ】 Gamblea innovans (species of deciduous tree), extremely spicy form of chili pepper, variety of high-quality green tea
JLPT level: -
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 支
Frequency: 10065
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 5
音読み / On reading: シ
訓読み / Kun reading: ささ.える、 つか.える、 か.う
English meaning: 支繞 -しにょうkanji "branch" radical as enclosure
支部 (部首)
branch, support, sustain, branch radical (no. 65)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 65 - branch 支
Phonetic: シ (as phon: ぎ、き) - 支 - branch, support, sustain, branch radical (no. 65)
Compounds: On reading compounds
支 【シ】 China
支援 【シエン】 support, backing, aid, assistance
気管支 【キカンシ】 bronchial tube
干支 【エト】 sexagenary cycle (60-year cycle of 12 animal zodiac and 5 elements in Chinese astrology), 12-year Chinese zodiac
Kun reading compounds
支える 【ささえる】 to support, to prop, to sustain, to underlay, to hold up, to defend, to hold at bay, to stem, to check
閊える 【つかえる】 to stick, to get stuck, to get caught, to get jammed, to clog, to be unavailable, to be busy, to be occupied, to be full, to be piled up (e.g. of work), to halt (in one's speech), to stumble (over one's words), to stutter, to stammer, to feel blocked (of one's chest or throat, due to grief, anxiety, illness, etc.), to feel pressure, to feel pain
支う 【かう】 to support, to prop up
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Parts: 十 又 支
JLPT level: N3
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 氏
Frequency: 10083
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 4
音読み / On reading: シ
訓読み / Kun reading: うじ、 -うじ
English meaning: 氏部
family name, surname, clan (radical 83 - clan)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 83 - clan 氏
Compounds: セ氏 【セシ】 Celsius, centigrade (or 摂氏100度)
On reading compounds
氏 【シ】 Mr, Mrs, Ms, Miss, clan, he, him, counter for people
氏名 【シメイ】 full name, identity
摂氏 【セッシ】 Celsius, centigrade
セ氏 【セシ】 Celsius, centigrade
Kun reading compounds
氏 【うじ】 family name, lineage, birth, clan
氏名 【しめい】 full name, identity
杜氏 【とうじ】 chief brewer at a sake brewery
漢氏 【あやうじ】 Aya clan
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
JLPT level: N1

Kanji print: 尸
Frequency: 10044
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: シ
訓読み / Kun reading: かたしろ
KKD2013: 4198 ?
Halpern Core: CORPSE
English meaning: corpse, remains, flag radical (no. 44)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 44 - corpse 尸
Compounds: On reading compounds
屍 【シカバネ】 corpse, kanji "corpse" radical
尸位素餐 【シイソサン】 neglecting the duties of an office while taking pay
三尸 【サンシ】 the three worms (in Taoism, worms that inhabit the human gut and, on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle, ascend to heaven during one's sleep to report on one's wrongdoings)
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 韭
Frequency: 10179
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: キュウ、 ク
意味: 韮、韭 [にら]。ユリ科の多年草。
［参考］地面に群がり生えるニラの形を表した字。
English meaning: leek radical (no. 179)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 179 - leek 韭
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): jiu3
Parts: 韭  //  Variants: 韮
画数 / Stroke count: 9
Other fields (not shown on cards):
旧字 / Old Style: 異体字: 韮

Kanji print: 疒
Frequency: 10104
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ダク、 ニャク、 ソウ、 ジョウ、 シツ
訓読み / Kun reading: や.む
KKD2013: 4326
Halpern Core: YAMAIDARE
English meaning: trailing sickness, sick radical (no. 104)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 104 - sickness 疒
Compounds: yamaidare ‘illness’ ( 病 痛 療 ), used in charactersrelated to illness, diseases or injury
画数 / Stroke count: 5

Kanji print: 片
Frequency: 10091
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 6
音読み / On reading: ヘン
訓読み / Kun reading: かた-、 かた
KKD2013: 4272
Halpern Core: FRAGMENT ?
English meaning: one-sided, leaf, sheet, right-side kata radical (no. 91)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 91 - slice 片
Compounds: On reading compounds
片 【ヘン】 piece, chip, flake
片時 【カタトキ】 moment, instant
紙片 【シヘン】 piece (scrap, bit, strip) of paper
砕片 【サイヘン】 debris
Kun reading compounds
片 【かた】 one (of a pair), incomplete, imperfect, fragmentary, few, little, off-centre, remote, side, problem, question, matters
片側 【かたがわ】 one side
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 香
Frequency: 10186
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 8
音読み / On reading: コウ、キョウ
訓読み / Kun reading: か、 かお.り、 かお.る
English meaning: incense, smell, perfume
aroma, fragrance, scent, smell
(radical 186)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 186 - fragrance 香
Compounds: On reading compounds
香 【コウ】 incense
香水 【コウスイ】 perfume
線香 【センコウ】 incense stick
焼香 【ショウコウ】 burning (offer) incense
香 【キョウ】 lance
香車 【キョウシャ】 lance
異香 【イキョウ】 great fragrance
茴香 【ウイキョウ】 fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)
Kun reading compounds
香 【か】 smell (esp. a good smell), fragrance, scent, aroma, perfume
香り 【かおり】 aroma, fragrance, scent, smell
腸香 【わたか】 wataka (Ischikauia steenackeri) (freshwater fish of the carp family)
木の香 【きのか】 smell of new wood
香り 【かおり】 aroma, fragrance, scent, smell
香りがする 【かおりがする】 to smell, to smell of, to have a smell
香る 【かおる】 to smell sweet, to be fragrant
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: こ、 こお、 ひゃん、 よし
Parts: 日 禾 香
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 9

Kanji print: 牙
Frequency: 10092
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 8
音読み / On reading: ガ、 ゲ
訓読み / Kun reading: きば、 は
English meaning: tusk, fang, tusk radical (no. 92)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 92 - fang 牙
Compounds: On reading compounds
牙城 【ガジョウ】 stronghold (esp. of an enemy or opponent), inner citadel, bastion
牙関緊急 【ガカンキンキュウ】 trismus, lockjaw
爪牙 【ソウガ】 claws and fangs, claws and tusks, clutches, devious design, means of causing harm, weapon, pawn, stooge, cat's-paw, right-hand man
毒牙 【ドクガ】 poison fang, sinister ways, crooked means, clutches, wily ways, dirty trick
新象牙 【シンゾウゲ】 ivory-like plastic (used for mahjong tiles, shogi pieces, etc.)
黒花狼牙 【クロバナロウゲ】 purple marshlocks (Comarum palustre), swamp cinquefoil, marsh cinquefoil
Kun reading compounds
牙 【きば】 tusk, fang
牙海蜷 【きばうみにな】 mud creeper (Terebralia palustris)
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 鳥
Frequency: 10196
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: チョウ
訓読み / Kun reading: とり
English meaning: bird, chicken (radical 196)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 196 - birdbird 鳥
Compounds: On reading compounds
鳥肉 【トリニク】 chicken meat, bird meat
鳥類 【チョウルイ】 birds
愛鳥 【アイチョウ】 pet bird
海鳥 【ウミドリ】 sea bird
Kun reading compounds
鳥 【とり】 bird, bird meat (esp. chicken meat), fowl, poultry
鳥居 【とりい】 torii, Shinto shrine archway
焼き鳥 【やきとり】 yakitori, chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer
花鶏 【あとり】 brambling (bird) (Fringilla montifringilla)
Parts: 杰 鳥
JLPT level: N4
画数 / Stroke count: 11

Kanji print: 角
Frequency: 10148
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: カク
訓読み / Kun reading: かど、 つの
English meaning: angle, corner, square, horn, antlers
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 148 - horn 角
Compounds: On reading compounds
角 【カク】 angle, square (or cube), bishop, third degree (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale), Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions), jiao (monetary unit of China; one- tenth of a yuan)
角界 【カクカイ】 the world of sumo
内角 【ナイカク】 interior angle, internal angle, inside corner
外角 【ガイカク】 external angle, exterior angle, outside corner
Kun reading compounds
角 【かど】 corner (e.g. desk, pavement), edge
角地 【かどち】 corner lot
四つ角 【よつかど】 four corners, crossroads, intersecting street, street corner
塩角 【しおかど】 sharp taste of (refined) salt
角 【つの】 horn, antler, antenna, feeler, tentacle (e.g. of a snail), horn-like projection (e.g. peaks of whipped cream)
角隠し 【つのかくし】 bride's head-dress
枝角 【えだづの】 antler (deer, etc.)
豊饒の角 【ほうじょうのつの】 cornucopia, horn of plenty
Parts: ｜ 勹 月 角
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 7

Kanji print: 十
Frequency: 10024
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: ジュウ、 ジッ、 ジュッ
訓読み / Kun reading: とお、 と
English meaning: ten
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 24 - ten, complete 十
Compounds: On reading compounds
十 【ジュウ】 ten
十一 【ジュウイチ】 eleven, 11, jack (playing card), Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax), Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
九十 【キュウジュウ】 ninety
明日の百より今日の五十 【アスノヒャクヨリキョウノゴジュウ】 a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
十種競技 【ジッシュキョウギ】 decathlon
十指 【ジッシ】 the ten fingers
十回 【ジッカイ】 ten times
Kun reading compounds
十 【じゅう】 ten
十日 【とおか】 the tenth day of the month, ten days
JLPT level: N5
画数 / Stroke count: 2
Other fields (not shown on cards):
Kanji shorthand: -

Kanji print: 卜
Frequency: 10025
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 9
音読み / On reading: ボク
訓読み / Kun reading: うらな.う、 うらない
English meaning: divining, fortune-telling, divination or katakana to radical (no. 25)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 25 - divination 卜
Phonetic: ボク, (フ as phonetic) - 卜 - divination
MAH-Story: TCGTJ2016-573: 兆 cracks in heated turtleshell <- compare卜(‘divination cracks’ > ‘divination’)
Compounds: On reading compounds
卜 【ボク】 divining, telling a fortune, predicting, choosing, settling, fixing
卜者 【ボクシャ】 fortuneteller, soothsayer, diviner
売卜 【バイボク】 fortunetelling (as an occupation)
亀卜 【キボク】 tortoise-shell divination
Kun reading compounds
占う 【うらなう】 to tell someone's fortune, to forecast, to predict, to divine
卜う 【うらなう】 to tell a fortune, to predict, to choose, to settle, to fix
占い 【うらない】 fortune-telling, divination
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: うら
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): bu3, bo5
JLPT level: -
画数 / Stroke count: 2

Kanji print: 臣
Frequency: 10131
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 4
音読み / On reading: シン、ジン
訓読み / Kun reading: -
KKD2013: 3806
Halpern Core: RETAINER, subject, vassal
English meaning: shin ‘retainer’, used for character classification
radical 131 - minster, official
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 131 - minster, official 臣
Compounds: RADICAL: shin ‘retainer’, used for character classification
Left variant: 臣 shin ( 臨 臥 )
On reading compounds
臣 【オミ】 retainer, attendant, Omi (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to sixth highest of eight), I, me
臣民 【シンミン】 subject, national
忠臣 【チュウシン】 loyal retainer, loyal subject
重臣 【ジュウシン】 chief vassal, senior statesman
国務大臣 【コクムダイジン】 Minister of State
内大臣 【ナイダイジン】 Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1885-1945 CE), Minister of the Interior (669-1868 CE)
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: おみ、 たか、 と、 とみ、 み
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): chen2
Parts: 臣 匚
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 7

Kanji print: 麦
Frequency: 10199
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: バク
訓読み / Kun reading: むぎ
English meaning: radical 199 - wheat
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 199 - wheat 麥
Compounds: 麥繞 -ばくにょう -kanji "wheat" radical​
麦繞 -ばくにょう -kanji "wheat" radical​
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)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)
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Parts: 二 亠 土 夂 麦  //  Variants: 麥
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 7

Kanji print: 行
Frequency: 10144
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: コウ、ギョウ、アン
訓読み / Kun reading: い.く、 ゆ.く、 -ゆ.き、 -ゆき、 -い.き、 -いき、 おこな.う、 おこ.なう
KKD2013: 0247
Halpern Core: GYŌGAMAE
English meaning: radical 144 -go, do 行
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 144 - go, do 行
Compounds: On reading compounds
行 【コウ】 going, travelling (traveling), type of classical Chinese verse (usu. an epic), district (of similar merchants), guild, bank
行動 【コウドウ】 action, conduct, behaviour, behavior, mobilization, mobilisation
旅行 【リョコウ】 travel, trip, journey, excursion, tour
急行 【キュウコウ】 hurrying (to somewhere), rushing, hastening, express (train)
行 【ギョウ】 line (i.e. of text), row, verse, carya (austerities), samskara (formations), running script (a semi-cursive style of kanji)
行儀 【ギョウギ】 manners, behavior, behaviour
一行 【イチギョウ】 (one) line, (one) row
修行 【シュギョウ】 ascetic practices, training, practice, discipline, study
行脚 【アンギャ】 pilgrimage, traveling on foot
行火 【アンカ】 bed warmer, foot warmer
Kun reading compounds
行く 【いく】 to go, to move (in a direction or towards a specific location), to head (towards), to be transported (towards), to reach, to proceed, to take place, to pass through, to come and go, to walk, to die, to pass away, to do (in a specific way), to stream, to flow, to continue, to have an orgasm, to come, to cum, to trip, to get high, to have a drug-induced hallucination
行く先 【ゆくさき】 destination, whereabouts, future, prospects
行く 【いく】 to go, to move (in a direction or towards a specific location), to head (towards), to be transported (towards), to reach, to proceed, to take place, to pass through, to come and go, to walk, to die, to pass away, to do (in a specific way), to stream, to flow, to continue, to have an orgasm, to come, to cum, to trip, to get high, to have a drug-induced hallucination
行方 【ゆくえ】 (one's) whereabouts, outcome
行う 【おこなう】 to perform, to do, to conduct oneself, to carry out
行う 【おこなう】 to perform, to do, to conduct oneself, to carry out
Parts: 行 彳
JLPT level: N5
画数 / Stroke count: 6

Kanji print: 二
Frequency: 10007
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: ニ、 ジ
訓読み / Kun reading: ふた、 ふた.つ、 ふたたび
English meaning: two, two radical (no. 7)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 7 -two 二
Compounds: On reading compounds
二 【ニ】 two
二人 【フタリ】 two persons, two people, pair, couple
第二 【ダイニ】 second
十二 【ジュウニ】 12, twelve
二乗 【ニジョウ】 squaring, multiplying (a number) by itself, second power
次男 【ジナン】 second son
不二 【フジ】 being two sides of the same coin, being the same (while appearing different), Very sincerely yours, peerless, unparalleled, unparallelled
唯一不二 【ユイイツフジ】 one and only, unique
Kun reading compounds
二 【に】 two
二つ 【ふたつ】 two
二つ 【ふたつ】 two
二つ目 【ふたつめ】 one after next, second
再び 【ふたたび】 again, once more, a second time
JLPT level: N5
画数 / Stroke count: 2

Kanji print: 歯
Frequency: 10211
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 3
音読み / On reading: シ
訓読み / Kun reading: よわい、 は、 よわ.い、 よわい.する
English meaning: tooth, cog -radical 211
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 211 - tooth, molar 齒
Phonetic: シ - 止 - stop
Compounds: On reading compounds
歯科医 【シカイ】 dentist
歯科 【シカ】 dentistry
義歯 【ギシ】 artificial tooth
生歯 【セイシ】 teething, cutting teeth, dentition
Kun reading compounds
齢 【よわい】 (one's) age
歯 【は】 tooth
歯切れ 【はぎれ】 feel when biting, manner of enunciation
継ぎ歯 【つぎば】 capped tooth, (dental) crown
年端 【としは】 age, years (old)
齢 【よわい】 (one's) age
Parts: 止 米 歯 凵
Variants: 齒
JLPT level: N3
画数 / Stroke count: 12

Kanji print: 玄
Frequency: 10095
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 8
音読み / On reading: ゲン
訓読み / Kun reading: くろ、 くろ.い
KKD2013: 2485
Halpern Core: PROFOUND, abstruse, mystic, occult, mysterious, esoteric
English meaning: dark, profound 玄 - radical 95
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 95 -dark, profound 玄
Phonetic: ゲン - 玄 - mysterious, occultness, black, deep, profound
Compounds: On reading compounds
玄関 【ゲンカン】 entranceway, entry hall, vestibule, foyer, entryway, mud room
玄米 【ゲンマイ】 unpolished rice, unmilled rice, brown rice
幽玄 【ユウゲン】 subtle grace, hidden beauty, yugen, mysterious profundity, elegant simplicity, the subtle and profound, the occult
Kun reading compounds
玄人 【くろうと】 expert, professional, master, woman in the nightlife business, demimondaine, geisha and prostitutes
玄人はだし 【くろうとはだし】 ability that outdoes (shames) professionals
Parts: 玄 亠 幺
JLPT level: N1
画数 / Stroke count: 5

Kanji print: 骨
Frequency: 10188
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 6
音読み / On reading: コツ
訓読み / Kun reading: ほね
English meaning: skeleton, bone, remains, frame
bone (radical 188)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 188 - bone 骨
Compounds: On reading compounds
骨 【コツ】 knack, skill, trick, secret, know-how, the ropes, hang
骨髄 【コツズイ】 bone marrow, medulla, true spirit, one's mind
白骨 【ハッコツ】 white (bleached) bone, skeleton
鉄骨 【テッコツ】 steel frame, steel beam, steel girder
Kun reading compounds
骨 【ほね】 bone, frame, outline, core, backbone, spirit, fortitude, laborious, troublesome, difficult
骨抜き 【ほねぬき】 boned (e.g. fish, etc.), watered down (e.g. plan, bill, etc.), mutilated, lacking integrity or moral backbone
河骨 【こうほね】 Japanese spatterdock (species of water lily, Nuphar japonica)
喉に刺さった骨 【のどにささったほね】 bone stuck in one's throat
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Parts: 月 骨 冂 冖
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 10

Kanji print: 舌
Frequency: 10135
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 5
音読み / On reading: ゼツ
訓読み / Kun reading: した
English meaning: radical 135 - tongue, reed, clapper
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 135 - tongue 舌
Phonetic: カツ - 舌 - tongue (RHS phonetic)
Compounds: On reading compounds
舌圧子 【ゼツアツシ】 tongue depressor
舌咽神経 【ゼツインシンケイ】 glossopharyngeal nerve
冗舌 【ジョウゼツ】 garrulity, loquacity, talkativeness
後舌 【コウゼツ】 rear part of the tongue
Kun reading compounds
舌 【した】 tongue, tongue-like object, clapper (of a bell), talon (of a lock)
舌打ち 【したうち】 smacking lips, clicking tongue, tut-tut
悪舌 【あくぜつ】 evil tongue, gossip
牛舌魚 【うしのした】 cow's tongue, sole (any flatfish of suborder Soleoidei, esp. the tonguefishes of family Cynoglossidae or true soles of family Soleidae)
Parts: 舌 口
JLPT level: N1
画数 / Stroke count: 6

Kanji print: 見
Frequency: 10147
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: ケン、ゲン
訓読み / Kun reading: み.る、 み.える、 み.せる
English meaning: 147 - see 見 - look, be seen, show,see, hopes, chances, idea, opinion, look at, visible
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 147 - see 見
Compounds: On reading compounds
見 【ケン】 view (of life, etc.), outlook
見物 【ケンブツ】 sightseeing, watching, viewing, sightseer, watcher, spectator
一見 【イッケン】 look, glimpse, glance, apparently, seemingly, first meeting
政見 【セイケン】 political views
Kun reading compounds
見る 【みる】 to see, to look, to watch, to view, to observe, to look over, to look on, to assess, to examine, to judge, to look after, to keep an eye on, to take care of, to view (e.g. flowers, movie), to try, to try out, to test, to see that..., to find that...
見る見る 【みるみる】 very fast, in a twinkle, before one's eyes
見える 【みえる】 to be seen, to be in sight, to look, to seem, to appear, to come
見える化 【みえるか】 visualization, rendering visible (e.g. a problem), digitization
見せる 【みせる】 to show, to display
Parts: 目 見 儿
JLPT level: N5
画数 / Stroke count: 7

Kanji print: 罒
网
Frequency: 10122
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: モウ、 ボウ
訓読み / Kun reading: あみがしら、 よこめ
KKD2013: 3779
Halpern Core: YONKASHIRA
English meaning: net radical variant (no. 122)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 122 - net 网 (罒, ⺲, 罓, ⺳)
Parts: 网 (罒, ⺲, 罓, ⺳, 㓁)
画数 / Stroke count: 5

Kanji print: 士
Frequency: 10033
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 4
音読み / On reading: シ
訓読み / Kun reading: さむらい
English meaning: gentleman, scholar, samurai, samurai radical (no. 33)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 33 -scholar, bachelor 士
Phonetic: シ - 士 - gentleman, scholar, samurai, samurai radical (no. 33)
Compounds: Japanese names: お、 ま
On reading compounds
士 【シ】 man (esp. one who is well-respected), samurai, person (in a certain profession, esp. licensed), member
士官 【シカン】 officer
飛行士 【ヒコウシ】 pilot
公認会計士 【コウニンカイケイシ】 certified public accountant
Kun reading compounds
侍 【さむらい】 warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period), samurai, man in attendance (on a person of high standing), retainer
二四六九士 【にしむくさむらい】 mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days (ni, shi, mu, ku, etc.)
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: お、 ま
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): shi4
JLPT level: N1
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 革
Frequency: 10249
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 6
音読み / On reading: カク
訓読み / Kun reading: かわ
English meaning: leather, skin, reform, become serious
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 177 - leather, rawhide 革
Compounds: On reading compounds
革命 【カクメイ】 revolution, 58th year of the sexagenary cycle (in Onmyōdō)
革新 【カクシン】 reform, innovation
行革 【ギョウカク】 administrative reform
農地改革 【ノウチカイカク】 agrarian reform
Kun reading compounds
革 【かわ】 leather
革靴 【かわぐつ】 leather shoes, leather boots
藍革 【あいかわ】 indigo-dyed leather
負い革 【おいかわ】 sling (e.g. of a firearm)
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Parts: 革 十 口 廾
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 9

Kanji print: 八
Frequency: 10012
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: ハチ
訓読み / Kun reading: や、 や.つ、 やっ.つ、 よう
English meaning: eight, eight radical (no. 12)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 12 - eight 八
Compounds: On reading compounds
八 【ハチ】 eight
八月 【ハチガツ】 August
十八 【ジュウハチ】 18, eighteen
尺八 【シャクハチ】 shakuhachi, end-blown fippleless bamboo flute, blow job, fellatio
Kun reading compounds
八 【はち】 eight
八百屋 【やおや】 greengrocer
八つ 【やっつ】 eight
八つ当たり 【やつあたり】 venting one's anger (on someone or something), taking out one's anger on
八つ 【やっつ】 eight
八日 【ようか】 the eighth day of the month, eight days
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: な、 は、 はっ、 はつ、 やち、 やつ
JLPT level: N5
画数 / Stroke count: 2

Kanji print: 自
Frequency: 10132
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: ジ、シ
訓読み / Kun reading: みずか.ら、 おの.ずから、 おの.ずと
English meaning: self,oneself - (132 - self)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 132 - self 自
Compounds: Japanese names: より
On reading compounds
自 【ジ】 self-, from ..., this ... (in contrast to some other ...), aforementioned
自転車 【ジテンシャ】 bicycle
出自 【シュツジ】 birthplace, descent, blood-lines, origins, one's outward self
海自 【カイジ】 Maritime Self-Defense Force
自然 【シゼン】 nature, natural, spontaneous, naturally, spontaneously
自然科学 【シゼンカガク】 natural science
己がじし 【オノガジシ】 each and every one, individually
Kun reading compounds
自ら 【みずから】 oneself, for one's self, personally
自ら進んで 【みずからすすんで】 by choice, of one's own free will, on one's own initiative, off one's own bat
自ずから 【おのずから】 naturally, as a matter of course
自ずから明らか 【おのずからあきらか】 self-evident
自ずと 【おのずと】 naturally, in due course, by itself
Parts: 目 自
JLPT level: N4
画数 / Stroke count: 6

Kanji print: 辰
Frequency: 10161
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 9
音読み / On reading: シン、 ジン
訓読み / Kun reading: たつ
English meaning: sign of the dragon; 7-9AM; fifth sign of Chinese zodiac; shin dragon radical (no. 161 - morning)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 161 - 辰 morning; shin dragon - しんのたつ
Phonetic: シン、 ジン - 辰 -sign of the dragon, 7-9AM, fifth sign of Chinese zodiac, shin dragon radical (no. 161)
Compounds: shinnotatsu ‘the Dragon’ ( 農 辱 ), used in characters related to agriculture
On reading compounds
辰砂 【シンシャ】 cinnabar, cinnabarite, cinnabar lacquer, cinnabar lacquerware
星辰 【セイシン】 celestial bodies, stars
日月星辰 【ジツゲツセイシン】 the sun, the moon and the stars, the heavenly bodies
Kun reading compounds
辰 【たつ】 fifth sign of the Chinese zodiac (The Dragon, 7am-9am, east-southeast, March)
辰年 【たつどし】 year of the dragon
庚辰 【かのえたつ】 seventeenth of the sexagenary cycle
甲辰 【きのえたつ】 41st of the sexagenary cycle
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: とき、 のぶ、 のぶる
Parts: 衣 辰 厂
JLPT level: N1
画数 / Stroke count: 7
Other fields (not shown on cards):
Kanji shorthand: -

Kanji print: 言
Frequency: 10149
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: ゲン、ゴン
訓読み / Kun reading: い.う、 こと
English meaning: say,speech, word - (rad 149)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 149 - speech 言 (訁)
Compounds: Japanese names: とき
On reading compounds
言 【ゲン】 word, remark, statement
言語 【ゲンゴ】 language
甘言 【カンゲン】 sweet words, smooth talk, cajolery, flattery, sycophancy
過言 【カゴン】 exaggeration, overstatement, saying too much, misstatement, slip of the tongue, gaffe
言語 【ゲンゴ】 language
言語道断 【ゴンゴドウダン】 outrageous, preposterous, scandalous, inexcusable, absurd, execrable
過言 【カゴン】 exaggeration, overstatement, saying too much, misstatement, slip of the tongue, gaffe
二言 【ニゴン】 double-dealing, double tongue, going back on what one has said, repeating oneself
Kun reading compounds
言う 【いう】 to say, to utter, to declare, to name, to call, to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"), to make a noise
言うまでもない 【いうまでもない】 it goes without saying, there is no need to say so, but of course, it is needless to say, it need scarcely be said
言 【げん】 word, remark, statement
言葉 【ことば】 language, dialect, word, words, phrase, term, expression, remark, speech, (manner of) speaking
戯言 【たわごと】 nonsense, silly talk, drivel, rubbish
伝言 【つてこと】 verbal message, word, rumour, rumor
JLPT level: N4
画数 / Stroke count: 7

Kanji print: 首
Frequency: 10185
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: シュ
訓読み / Kun reading: くび
English meaning: neck, counter for songs and poems (rad 185 -head 首 )
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 185 - head 首
Compounds: Japanese names: おびと、 こべ、 す
On reading compounds
首 【シュ】 counter for songs and poems
首級 【シュキュウ】 decapitated head of an enemy
自首 【ジシュ】 surrender (to the authorities), giving oneself up, turning oneself in
元首 【ゲンシュ】 ruler, sovereign
Kun reading compounds
首 【くび】 neck, head, dismissal, discharge, firing (from a job)
首飾り 【くびかざり】 necklace, choker
縛り首 【しばりくび】 (death by) hanging
猪首 【いくび】 bull neck
Parts: 目 自 首 并
JLPT level: N3
画数 / Stroke count: 9

Kanji print: 干
Frequency: 10051
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 6
音読み / On reading: カン
訓読み / Kun reading: ほ.す、 ほ.し-、 -ぼ.し、 ひ.る
English meaning: dry, parch, ebb, recede, interfere, intercede
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 51 - pestle 干
Phonetic: カン - 干 - dry, parch, ebb, recede, interfere, intercede
Compounds: On reading compounds
関与 【カンヨ】 participation, taking part in, participating in, being concerned in
干渉 【カンショウ】 interference, intervention, meddling
水干 【スイカン】 everyday garment worn by nobles in ancient Japan, silk dried after having been washed in plain water and stretched out
十干 【ジッカン】 the 10 calendar signs
Kun reading compounds
干す 【ほす】 to air, to dry, to desiccate, to drain (off), to drink up, to deprive of a role, job, etc.
干る 【ひる】 to dry
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: ほし
Parts: 一 十 干
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 鹵
Frequency: 10197
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ロ
訓読み / Kun reading: しお、 しおち、 たて
KKD2013: 2634
Halpern Core: PLUNDER, rob, capture;big shield;[arch] salt, rock salt
English meaning: salt (rad 197 - salt)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 197 -salt 鹵
Compounds: 鹵獲 【ロカク】 capture (of enemy weapons, supplies, etc.), seizure, plunder
鹵獲品 【ロカクヒン】 plunder, spoil(s), booty, loot
On reading compounds
鹵獲 【ロカク】 capture (of enemy weapons, supplies, etc.), seizure, plunder
鹵獲品 【ロカクヒン】 plunder, spoil(s), booty, loot
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): lu3
Parts: 鹵 十 囗
画数 / Stroke count: 11

Kanji print: 阝  //  阜
Frequency: 10170
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
訓読み / Kun reading: こざと
KKD2013: 3254
Halpern Core: MOUND
English meaning: place, left village radical - 2 stroke form (no. 170)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 170 mound, dam (阝 left) 阜 (阝)
Compounds: こざと偏 - [こざとへん] - kanji "mound" or "small village" radical at left (radical 170)
gifunofu ‘mound’, used in characters related tomounds, hills or the like
Left variant: 阝 kozatohen
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 丨
Frequency: 10002
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: コン、 シ、 ジョ、 ニョ
訓読み / Kun reading: すす.む、 しりぞ.く
English meaning: number one, line, rod radical (no. 2)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 2 - line 丨
画数 / Stroke count: 1

Kanji print: 匚
Frequency: 10022
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ホウ
KKD2013: 4162
Halpern Core: HAKOGAMAE
English meaning: box-on-side enclosure radical (no. 22)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 22 - box 匚
Compounds: RADICAL: hakogamae ‘box’ ( 匠 匡 匪 ), used in characters related to boxes or receptacles
画数 / Stroke count: 2

Kanji print: 火
Frequency: 10086
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: カ
訓読み / Kun reading: ひ、 -び、 ほ-
English meaning: fire (rad 86)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 86 - fire 火 (灬)
Compounds: On reading compounds
火 【カ】 Tuesday, fire (second of the five elements)
火炎瓶 【カエンビン】 Molotov cocktail
発火 【ハッカ】 ignition, catching fire, firing (e.g. gun), discharging
小火 【ボヤ】 small fire
Kun reading compounds
火 【ひ】 fire, flame, blaze
火のないところに煙は立たない 【ひのないところにけむりはたたない】 There's no smoke without fire.
飛び火 【とびひ】 leaping flames, flying sparks, spread of fire (due to leaping flames), repercussions in unanticipated areas, spilling over, effects of an incident spreading to those seemingly uninvolved, impetigo contagiosa
不知火 【しらぬい】 phosphorescent light, mysterious lights on the sea, sea fire
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
JLPT level: N5
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 比
Frequency: 10081
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 5
音読み / On reading: ヒ
訓読み / Kun reading: くら.べる
English meaning: compare, race, ratio, Philippines
(81 - compare, compete 比)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 81 - compare, compete 比
Compounds: On reading compounds
比 【ヒ】 ratio, proportion, match, equal, explicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing), Philippines, in comparison with ...
比較 【ヒカク】 comparison
口径比 【コウケイヒ】 aperture ratio (inverse of the f-number), relative aperture
正比 【セイヒ】 direct ratio
Kun reading compounds
比べる 【くらべる】 to compare, to make a comparison, to compete, to vie
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: い、 ぴっ
Parts: 比
Variants:夶
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 辛
Frequency: 10160
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 8
音読み / On reading: シン
訓読み / Kun reading: から.い、 つら.い、 -づら.い、 かのと
KKD2013: 2531
Halpern Core: PUNGENT, hot, spicy; (difficult to bear) HARD, trying, bitter, painful, toilsome; barely, narrowly; eighth calendar sign
English meaning: hot, spicy (rad 160)
spicy, bitter, hot, acrid
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 160 - bitter 辛
Compounds: RADICAL: karai ‘acrid’ ( 辜 辟 辞 ), used for character classification; Left variant:  karai ( 辦 辣 )
On reading compounds
辛 【カノト】 8th in rank, eighth sign of the Chinese calendar
辛抱 【シンボウ】 patience, endurance
細辛 【サイシン】 Siebold's wild ginger (esp. its dried root or rhizome, used as an antitussive and analgesic in traditional Chinese medicine)
薄葉細辛 【ウスバサイシン】 Siebold's wild ginger (Asarum sieboldii)
Kun reading compounds
辛い 【からい】 spicy, hot, salty, harsh (criticism), severe (punishment), strict, painful, bitter, difficult, tough
辛い味 【からいあじ】 pungent taste
辛い 【つらい】 painful, bitter, heart-breaking, difficult (emotionally), tough, difficult, hard (usu. of situations), cruel, harsh, cold
辛い目に会う 【つらいめにあう】 to have a hard time of it
辛 【かのと】 8th in rank, eighth sign of the Chinese calendar
辛卯 【かのとう】 twenty-eighth of the sexagenary cycle
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Parts: 立 辛 十
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 7

Kanji print: 戸
Frequency: 10063
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: コ
訓読み / Kun reading: と
English meaning: door, counter for houses, door radical (no. 63)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 63 -door, house 戶 (户, 戸)
MAH-Story: . . 尸 CORPSE
Compounds: On reading compounds
戸 【コ】 counter for houses, households, apartments, etc.
戸籍 【コセキ】 family register, census
一戸 【イッコ】 one house, household
下戸 【ゲコ】 someone who can't drink, non-drinker, temperate man
Kun reading compounds
戸 【と】 door (esp. Japanese-style), shutter, window shutter, entrance (to a home), narrows
戸棚 【とだな】 cupboard, locker, closet, wardrobe, cabinet
鳴門 【なると】 strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow, whirlpool, maelstrom, kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern, cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern, Naruto, city in NE Tokushima pref, Naruto Strait, Naruto wakame
引き戸 【ひきど】 sliding door
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: え、 へ
Parts: 戸 一 尸
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 走
Frequency: 10156
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: ソウ
訓読み / Kun reading: はし.る
English meaning: run (rad 156)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 156 - run 走 (赱)
Compounds: On reading compounds
走 【ソウ】 run, race
走行 【ソウコウ】 running a wheeled vehicle (e.g. car), running to program, job, etc., traveling, travelling
脱走 【ダッソウ】 escape, flight, breakout, fleeing, desertion
暴走 【ボウソウ】 acting rashly, running wildly, behaving recklessly, reckless driving, rampage, runaway (process), reckless baserunning
Kun reading compounds
走る 【はしる】 to run, to travel (movement of vehicles), to drive, to flow (e.g. energy), to hurry to, to retreat (from battle), to take flight, to run away from home, to elope, to tend heavily toward, to flash, to streak, to shoot through (e.g. pain)
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: はしり
Parts: 走 土
Variants: 赱
JLPT level: N4
画数 / Stroke count: 7

Kanji print: 瓦
Frequency: 10098
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 8
音読み / On reading: ガ
訓読み / Kun reading: かわら、 ぐらむ
KKD2013: 4288
Halpern Core: ? /phonetic [ga]
English meaning: tile, gram (rad 98)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 98 -tile 瓦
Compounds: On reading compounds
瓦斯 【ガス】 gas (state of matter, e.g. poison gas, natural gas), gasoline, gas, petrol, dense fog, thick fog, gas stove, gas cooker, gas range, flatulence, gas, wind, fart
瓦礫 【ガレキ】 rubble, debris, wreckage
鞍橋 【クラボネ】 saddle tree
舗装煉瓦 【ホソウレンガ】 paving brick
Kun reading compounds
瓦 【かわら】 roof tile
瓦状 【かわらがさね】 imbricate, tegular, overlapping
瓦 【グラム】 gram, gramme
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Parts: 瓦 一
画数 / Stroke count: 5

Kanji print: 斗
Frequency: 10068
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 8
音読み / On reading: ト、 トウ
訓読み / Kun reading: -
English meaning: Big Dipper, ten sho (vol), sake dipper, dots and cross radical (no. 68)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 68 - dipper 斗
Phonetic: ト、 トウ - 斗 - Big Dipper, ten sho (vol), sake dipper, dots and cross radical (no. 68)
Compounds: On reading compounds
斗 【ト】 to, traditional unit of volume, approx. 18 litres, square bearing block (at the top of a pillar), Chinese "Dipper" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
斗 【トマス】 kanji radical 68 at right
星斗 【セイト】 star
泰斗 【タイト】 a great authority
闘争 【トウソウ】 strife, conflict
闘魂 【トウコン】 fighting spirit
擬斗 【ギトウ】 fight scene, stage combat, staged sword fight
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: ます
JLPT level: N1
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 鼎
Frequency: 10206
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 9
音読み / On reading: テイ
訓読み / Kun reading: かなえ
KKD2013: 4405
Halpern Core: [original meaning] TRIPOD CAULDRON, (involving three parts or things) triangular, three-party
English meaning: three legged kettle
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 206 - tripod 鼎
Compounds: On reading compounds
鼎 【カナエ】 three-legged metal pot or kettle (used in ancient China)
鼎革 【テイカク】 change of dynasty
Kun reading compounds
鼎 【かなえ】 three-legged metal pot or kettle (used in ancient China)
鼎の軽重を問う 【かなえのけいちょうをとう】 to call one's ability into question, to weigh one's ability
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): ding3
Parts: 爿 片 目 鼎 一 ｜
画数 / Stroke count: 13

Kanji print: 禸
Frequency: 10114
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ジュウ、 ニュ
訓読み / Kun reading: あしあと
KKD2013: 4281
Halpern Core: track; GŪNOASHI
English meaning: rump, footprint radical (no. 114)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 114 - track 禸
Compounds: RADICAL: gūnoashi ‘track’  (禺の足) - ( 禹; 禺; 禽 ), used for character classification
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): rou2
画数 / Stroke count: 5

Kanji print: 廴
Frequency: 10054
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: イン
English meaning: long stride or stretching radical (no. 54)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 54 - long stride 廴
Compounds: On reading compounds
廴繞 【インニョウ】 kanji "stretch" radical (radical 54)
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 身
Frequency: 10158
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 3
音読み / On reading: シン
訓読み / Kun reading: み
English meaning: somebody, person, one's station in life
body, person (rad 158)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 158 - body 身
Compounds: RADICAL:mi ‘body’, used in characters related to the body.Left variant: mihen ( 躬, 躾 )
身の上
On reading compounds
心身 【シンシン】 mind and body
身障者 【シンショウシャ】 disabled person, physically handicapped person
終身 【シュウシン】 the whole life
等身 【トウシン】 body proportions
Kun reading compounds
身 【み】 body, oneself, one's place, one's position, main part, meat (as opposed to bone, skin, etc.), wood (as opposed to bark), blade (as opposed to its handle), container (as opposed to its lid)
身動き 【みうごき】 moving about, stirring about
入れ墨 【いれずみ】 tattoo
細身 【ほそみ】 narrow, thin (sized), slender
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
画数 / Stroke count: 7

Kanji print: 麻
Frequency: 10200
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 8
音読み / On reading: マ、 マア
訓読み / Kun reading: あさ
English meaning: hemp, flax, numb
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 200 - hemp, flax 麻
Phonetic: マ、 マア - 麻 - hemp, flax, numb
Compounds: On reading compounds
麻布 【アサヌノ】 hemp cloth, linen
麻酔 【マスイ】 anaesthesia, anesthesia
大麻 【タイマ】 hemp, cannabis, marijuana, pot, hashish, Shinto paper offerings
胡麻 【ゴマ】 sesame seeds, sesame (Sesamum indicum)
麻雀 【マージャン】 mahjong, mah-jongg
麻雀打ち 【マアジャンウチ】 mahjong player
Kun reading compounds
麻 【あさ】 cannabis (Cannabis sativa), hemp (plant), hemp (fiber), linen, flax, jute
麻布 【あさぬの】 hemp cloth, linen
大麻 【たいま】 hemp, cannabis, marijuana, pot, hashish, Shinto paper offerings
絹麻 【きぬあさ】 thin linen polished to appear like silk
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: あ、 あざ、 お
Parts: 广 木 麻  //  Variants: 蔴
JLPT level: N1
画数 / Stroke count: 11

Kanji print: 弋
Frequency: 10056
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ヨク
訓読み / Kun reading: いぐるみ
English meaning: piling, ceremony radical (no. 56)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 56 -shoot, arrow 弋
Compounds: On reading compounds
弋人 【ヨクジン】 hunter, archer
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 曰
Frequency: 10073
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: エツ
訓読み / Kun reading: いわ.く、 のたま.う、 のたま.わく、 ここに
KKD2013: 3757
Halpern Core: (literary) SAY THAT…;reason, pretext; history
English meaning: say, reason, pretext, history, past, flat sun radical (no. 73)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 73 - say 曰
Compounds: RADICAL:hirabi ‘say’, used for character classification:Variant: hirabi ( 書 最 曲 )
Kun reading compounds
曰く 【いわく】 pretext, history, past, story, according to ..., ... says
曰くありげ 【いわくありげ】 meaningful, suggestive
宣ふ 【のたまう】 to say, to be pleased to say (hint of sarcasm)
宣わく 【のたまわく】 according to ..., ... says
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): yue1
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 气
Frequency: 10084
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: キ、 ケ
訓読み / Kun reading: いき
English meaning: spirit, steam radical (no. 84)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 84 -steam, breath 气
Phonetic: 气 -キ、 ケ -spirit, steam radical (no. 84)
Parts: 气 乞
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 入
Frequency: 10011
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: ニュウ、 ジュ
訓読み / Kun reading: い.る、 -い.る、 -い.り、 い.れる、 -い.れ、 はい.る
English meaning: enter, insert (rad 11)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 11 - enter 入
Compounds: On reading compounds
入学 【ニュウガク】 entry to school or university, matriculation, enrolment (in university, etc.) (enrollment)
入院 【ニュウイン】 hospitalization, hospitalisation
記入 【キニュウ】 entry (in a form, register, diary, etc.), filling in, filling out
新入 【シンニュウ】 newly arrived, newly joined, newly entered, newcomer
入水 【ジュスイ】 suicide by drowning, drowning oneself, entering the water, hitting the water
入魂 【ジッコン】 intimacy, putting one's heart and soul into
Kun reading compounds
入る 【いる】 to get in, to go in, to come in, to flow into, to set, to set in
入るを量りて出ずるを為す 【いるをはかりていずるをなす】 consider your income before spending
入れる 【いれる】 to put in, to let in, to take in, to bring in, to insert, to set (a jewel, etc.), to ink in (e.g. a tattoo), to admit, to accept, to employ, to hire, to accept, to comply, to grant, to adopt (a policy, etc.), to take (advice, etc.), to listen to, to pay attention to, to include, to pay (one's rent, etc.), to cast (a vote), to make (tea, coffee, etc.), to turn on (a switch, etc.), to send (a fax), to call
入る 【はいる】 to enter, to go into, to break into, to join, to enroll, to contain, to hold, to accommodate, to have (an income of), to get, to receive, to score
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: いり、 いる、 に、 の、 りり
JLPT level: N5
画数 / Stroke count: 2

Kanji print: 生
Frequency: 10100
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: セイ、ショウ
訓読み / Kun reading: い.きる、 い.かす、 い.ける、 う.まれる、 うま.れる、 う.まれ、 うまれ、 う.む、 お.う、 は.える、 は.やす、 き、 なま、 なま-、 な.る、 な.す、 む.す、 -う
English meaning: life, live, student, genuine
raw, birth (rad 100)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 100 - life 生
Phonetic: セイ、 ショウ - 生-life, genuine, birth
Compounds: 素性 【スジョウ】 birth, lineage, parentage, origin, identity, background, history, past, provenance, origin
On reading compounds
生 【セイ】 life, living, I, me, myself
生徒 【セイト】 pupil, student, schoolchild
衛生 【エイセイ】 hygiene, sanitation, health
同級生 【ドウキュウセイ】 classmate
生 【セイ】 life, living, I, me, myself
生じる 【ショウジル】 to produce, to yield, to cause, to result from, to arise, to be generated
素性 【スジョウ】 birth, lineage, parentage, origin, identity, background, history, past, provenance, origin
殺生 【セッショウ】 killing, destruction of life, barbarous, callous, brutal, cruel, heartless
Kun reading compounds
生きる 【いきる】 to live, to exist, to make a living, to subsist, to be in effect, to be in use, to function, to come to life, to be enlivened, to be safe (in baseball, go, etc.)
生きる力 【いきるちから】 zest for living, energy to live
生かす 【いかす】 to make (the best) use of, to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.), to capitalise on (experience, etc), to let live, to keep alive, to revive, to resuscitate
生ける 【いける】 to arrange (flowers), to plant, living, live
生ける屍 【いけるしかばね】 living corpse
生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
生まれ 【うまれ】 birth, birthplace, born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
生まれ 【うまれ】 birth, birthplace, born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
生まれる 【うまれる】 to be born
生む 【うむ】 to give birth, to bear (child), to lay (eggs), to produce, to yield, to give rise to, to deliver
生う 【おう】 to grow, to spring up, to cut (teeth)
生える 【はえる】 to grow, to spring up, to sprout, to cut (teeth)
生やす 【はやす】 to grow, to cultivate, to wear a beard
生 【き】 pure, undiluted, raw, crude
生地 【きじ】 cloth, fabric, material, texture, dough, batter, inherent quality, one's true character, one's true colours, unglazed pottery, skin with no make-up
生 【なま】 raw, uncooked, fresh, natural, as it is, unedited, unprocessed, unprotected (i.e. not wearing a condom), live (i.e. not recorded), inexperienced, unpolished, green, crude, impudence, sauciness, unpasteurized beer, draft beer, draught beer, just a little, somehow, vaguely, partially, somewhat, half-, semi-, irresponsibly, half-baked, cash, tipsiness
生り 【なまり】 boiled and half-dried bonito
お生 【おなま】 impudence, sauciness
現生 【げんなま】 real money, cash
生る 【なる】 to bear fruit
生す 【なす】 to have a child
生す 【むす】 to grow (of moss, etc.)
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: あさ、 いき、 いく、 いけ、 うぶ、 うまい、 え、 おい、 ぎゅう、 くるみ、 ごせ、 さ、 じょう、 すぎ、 そ、 そう、 ちる、 なば、 にう、 にゅう、 ふ、 み、 もう、 よい、 りゅう
JLPT level: N5
画数 / Stroke count: 5

Kanji print: 立
Frequency: 10117
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: リツ、 リュウ、 リットル
訓読み / Kun reading: た.つ、 -た.つ、 た.ち-、 た.てる、 -た.てる、 た.て-、 たて-、 -た.て、 -だ.て、 -だ.てる
English meaning: establish, stand,stand up, rise, set up, erect (rad 117)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 117 - stand, erect 立
Compounds: On reading compounds
立案 【リツアン】 planning, devising (a plan), drafting, drawing up
立像 【リツゾウ】 standing statue, standing image
不成立 【フセイリツ】 failure, rejection, rupture
成立 【セイリツ】 formation, establishment, materialization, coming into existence, conclusion (e.g. of a deal), approval, completion, arrangement, being valid (of a theory, argument, etc.), holding, applying
立ち木 【タチキ】 standing tree, standing timber
立纓 【リュウエイ】 erect tail (of a traditional Japanese hat)
開立 【カイリュウ】 extraction of cubic root
造立 【ゾウリュウ】 erecting (temple, Buddhist statue, etc.)
Kun reading compounds
立つ 【たつ】 to stand, to rise, to stand up, to find oneself (e.g. in a difficult position), to depart (on a plane, train, etc.)
立つ瀬 【たつせ】 predicament, one's ground, one's position
突立 【とったつ】 stand straight up
立てる 【たてる】 to stand up, to put up, to set up, to erect, to raise, to thrust into, to bury into, to dig into, to make (a noise), to start (a rumour), to raise (a cloud of dust, etc.), to cause, to make, to establish, to set up, to develop, to formulate, to put up (a political candidate), to make (one's leader), to treat with respect, to give (someone) their due, to make (someone) look good, to avoid embarrassing (someone), to sharpen, to make clear, to shut, to close, to make tea (matcha), to perform the tea ceremony, to divide by, to do ... vigorously
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: たち、 たっ、 たつ、 だて、 つい
JLPT level: N4
画数 / Stroke count: 5

Kanji print: 黹
Frequency: 10204
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: チ
訓読み / Kun reading: ぬう、 ぬいとり
English meaning: sewing radical (no. 204)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 204 - embroidery, needlework 黹
Parts: ハ 并 冂 黹
画数 / Stroke count: 12

Kanji print: 鬯
Frequency: 10192
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: チョウ
訓読み / Kun reading: かおりぐさ
English meaning: fragrant herbs, spiced liqueur, grow, spread (rad 192)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 192 -herbs, sacrificial wine 鬯
Parts: 凵 匕 鬯
画数 / Stroke count: 10

Kanji print: 黍
Frequency: 10202
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ショ
訓読み / Kun reading: きび
KKD2013: 3210
Halpern Core: PROSO MILLET ?
English meaning: millet, (Hirse)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 202 - millet 黍
Compounds: Kun reading compounds
黍 【きび】 (common) millet (Panicum miliaceium), proso millet
きび砂糖 【きびざとう】 light brown sugar
唐黍 【とうきび】 Indian millet
砂糖黍 【さとうきび】 sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum)
Parts: 水 禾 黍
画数 / Stroke count: 12

Kanji print: 无
Frequency: 10071
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ブ、 ム
訓読み / Kun reading: なし、 ない
KKD2013: 4251
Halpern Core: MUNYŌ -‘without’, used in characters related to surfeit (Übermaß)or choking
English meaning: nothing, not exist, crooked heaven radical (no.71)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 71 - perish 无
Compounds: munyō ‘without’, used in characters related to surfeit (Übermaß)or choking
Right variants: 旡 sudenotsukuri ( 既 )
无汞 [] no mercury (chinese)
On reading compounds
むにょう
無 【ム】 nothing, naught, nought, nil, zero, un-, non-
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 子
Frequency: 10039
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: シ、 ス、 ツ
訓読み / Kun reading: こ、 -こ、 ね
English meaning: child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac (rad 39)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 39 - child, seed 子
Compounds: On reading compounds
子 【シ】 child (esp. a boy), viscount, master (founder of a school of thought, esp. Confucius), philosophy (branch of Chinese literature), non-Confucian Hundred Schools of Thought writings, you (of one's equals), -er (i.e. a man who spends all his time doing...)
子孫 【シソン】 descendant, posterity, offspring
因子 【インシ】 factor, factor, divisor
椰子 【ヤシ】 palm tree (any tree of family Arecaceae)
主 【ス】 honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name
金子 【キンス】 money, funds
恵比寿 【エビス】 Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce
面子 【メンツ】 face, honour, honor, meld, lineup (of players participating in a mahjong game)
対子 【トイツ】 pair, eyes
Kun reading compounds
子 【こ】 child, young (animal), young woman, young geisha, offshoot, interest, new shares, player who is not a dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.), bird egg, -er (often of young women)
子 【こう】 child, interest
判子 【はんこ】 seal (used for signature)
憎まれっ子 【にくまれっこ】 hated child, bad kid
子 【ね】 first sign of Chinese zodiac (The Rat, 11pm-1am, north, November)
子忌み 【ねいみ】 collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year)
甲子 【きのえね】 first of the sexagenary cycle
壬子 【みずのえね】 49th of the sexagenary cycle
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: い、 き、 ぎ、 く、 け、 ねっ
JLPT level: N5
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 鬲
Frequency: 10193
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: カク、 レキ
訓読み / Kun reading: かなえ、 へだ.てる
KKD2013: 2450
Halpern Core: KAKU, tripod
English meaning: tripod
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 193 - tripod, cauldron 鬲
Phonetic: カク、レキ - 鬲 - tripod
Compounds: RADICAL: kaku ‘ritual tripod’ ( 鬻 ), used in characters related to ritual tripod vessels or their use
On reading compounds
鬲 【レキ】 Chinese kettle with three legs
Kun reading compounds
鬲 【かなえ】 kanji "tripod" radical (radical 193)
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): li4, ge2
Parts: 儿 冂 口 鬲
画数 / Stroke count: 10

Kanji print: 谷
Frequency: 10150
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: コク
訓読み / Kun reading: たに、 きわ.まる
Halpern Core: VALLEY
English meaning: valley
(to reach an extreme, to reach a limit, to terminate, to come to an end, extremely, to be stuck, to be in a dilemma, to be at a loss, to be decided, to be settled) (rad 150)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 150 - valley 谷
Compounds: On reading compounds
渓谷 【ケイコク】 valley, ravine, canyon
峡谷 【キョウコク】 glen, ravine, gorge, canyon
Kun reading compounds
谷 【たに】 valley
谷間 【たにま】 valley, ravine, chasm, dell, cleavage (breasts), slum
不気味の谷 【ぶきみのたに】 uncanny valley (hypothesis about humanoid robots)
千仭の谷 【せんじんのたに】 bottomless ravine
極まる 【きわまる】 to reach an extreme, to reach a limit, to terminate, to come to an end, extremely, to be stuck, to be in a dilemma, to be at a loss, to be decided, to be settled
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: がい、 がえ、 がや、 せ、 たり、 たん、 や
Parts: 谷 个 ハ 口
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 7

Kanji print: 口
Frequency: 10030
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: ク、コウ
訓読み / Kun reading: くち
English meaning: mouth (rad 30)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 30 - mouth, opening 口
Compounds: On reading compounds
口 【ク】 mouth, speech, counter for people or implements
口径 【コウケイ】 aperture, bore, calibre, caliber
開口 【カイコウ】 opening, aperture (e.g. camera), opening one's mouth, beginning to speak, open, broad
経口 【ケイコウ】 oral
口 【ク】 mouth, speech, counter for people or implements
口 【クチ】 mouth, opening, hole, gap, orifice, mouth (of a bottle), spout, nozzle, mouthpiece, gate, door, entrance, exit, speaking, speech, talk (i.e. gossip), taste, palate, mouth (to feed), opening (i.e. vacancy), available position, invitation, summons, kind, sort, type, opening (i.e. beginning), counter for mouthfuls, shares (of money), and swords
猪口 【チョコ】 sake cup, small deep porcelain bowl for serving food
赤口 【シャッコウ】 unlucky for all activities, with only the period around noon being auspicious
Kun reading compounds
口 【くち】 mouth, opening, hole, gap, orifice, mouth (of a bottle), spout, nozzle, mouthpiece, gate, door, entrance, exit, speaking, speech, talk (i.e. gossip), taste, palate, mouth (to feed), opening (i.e. vacancy), available position, invitation, summons, kind, sort, type, opening (i.e. beginning), counter for mouthfuls, shares (of money), and swords
口利き 【くちきき】 mediation, good offices, intervention, mediator, middleman, influential person, person of influence, eloquence, eloquent person, way of speaking
切り口 【きりくち】 cut end, section, opening, slit, point of view, (different) perspective, new approach
大口 【おおぐち】 big mouth, boastful speech, tall talk, large amount, large sum
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Parts: 口 囗
JLPT level: N4
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 小
Frequency: 10042
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: ショウ
訓読み / Kun reading: ちい.さい、 こ-、 お-、 さ-
English meaning: little, small
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 42 - small, insignificant 小
Compounds: On reading compounds
小 【ショウ】 smallness, small item, short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days), elementary school, younger or inferior (of two items or people with the same name), unit of field area (approx. 400 sq m)
小学校 【ショウガッコウ】 primary school, elementary school, grade school
微小 【ビショウ】 microscopic
中小 【チュウショウ】 small to medium
Kun reading compounds
小さい 【ちいさい】 small, little, tiny, slight, below average (in degree, amount, etc.), minor, small, low (e.g. sound), soft (e.g. voice), unimportant, petty, insignificant, trifling, trivial, young, juvenile
小さい頃 【ちいさいころ】 as a child, when one was a child
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: いさら、 こう、 さざ、 しゃお、 ちいさ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): xiao3
JLPT level: N5
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 山
Frequency: 10046
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: サン、 セン
訓読み / Kun reading: やま
English meaning: mountain
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 46 - mountain 山
Compounds: On reading compounds
山 【サン】 Mt., Mount, Mt., Mount
山岳 【サンガク】 mountains
治山 【チサン】 forest conservation, afforestation
開山 【カイサン】 founding a temple (on a hill-top)
山道 【ヤマミチ】 mountain road, mountain trail
須弥山 【シュミセン】 Mt Sumeru (in Buddhism - said to be the highest mountain rising in the center of the world) (centre)
Kun reading compounds
山 【やま】 mountain, hill, mine (e.g. coal mine), heap, pile, crown (of a hat), thread (of a screw), tread (of a tire), protruding part of an object, climax, peak, critical point, guess, speculation, criminal case, crime, mountain climbing, mountaineering, festival float (esp. one mounted with a decorative halberd), wall, wall tile, temple, temple grounds, wild
山脈 【さんみゃく】 mountain range
奥山 【おくやま】 remote mountain, mountain recesses
青山 【せいざん】 lush mountain, green mountain, grave, burial place
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: さ、 やの、 やん
JLPT level: N5
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 夕
Frequency: 10036
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: セキ
訓読み / Kun reading: ゆう、ゆうべ
English meaning: evening, sunset (rad 36)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 36 - evening, sunset 夕
Compounds: On reading compounds
勺 【シャク】 shaku, traditional unit of volume, approx. 18 ml, shaku, traditional unit of area, approx. 0.033 meters square
夕日 【ユウヒ】 evening sun, setting sun
秋夕 【シュウセキ】 autumn evening, Chuseok, Korean Thanksgiving
一夕 【イッセキ】 one evening, some evenings
Kun reading compounds
夕 【ゆう】 evening
夕方 【ゆうがた】 evening, dusk
昨夕 【さくゆう】 yesterday evening, last night
春の夕 【はるのゆう】 spring evening
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: ゆ
JLPT level: N4
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 又
Frequency: 10029
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 8
音読み / On reading: ユウ
訓読み / Kun reading: また、 また-、 また.の-
English meaning: or again, furthermore, on the other hand
again (radical 29- right hand 又)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 29 - right hand 又
Compounds: Kun reading compounds
又 【また】 again, and, also, still (doing something)
又は 【または】 or, otherwise
尚又 【なおまた】 further, besides, moreover, in addition to
猫又 【ねこまた】 mythical two-tailed monster cat
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: やす
JLPT level: N1
画数 / Stroke count: 2

Kanji print: 木
Frequency: 10075
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: ボク、モク
訓読み / Kun reading: き、 こ-
KKD2013: 4261
Halpern Core: TREE; WOOD
English meaning: tree, wood
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 75 - tree 木
Compounds: radical: ki ‘tree’ ( 本 査 某 ), used in characters related to trees,wood or wooden objects
Left variant:kihen ( 梅 校 株)
On reading compounds
木刀 【ボクトウ】 wooden sword
木剣 【ボッケン】 bokken, wooden sword
土木 【ドボク】 engineering works, civil engineering, public works
名木 【メイボク】 old tree of historical interest, excellent wood, precious woods, choice wood
木 【モク】 Thursday, wood (first of the five elements)
木材 【モクザイ】 lumber, timber, wood
堅い材木 【カタイザイモク】 hard lumber
水木 【スイモク】 Wednesday and Thursday
Kun reading compounds
木 【き】 tree, shrub, bush, wood, timber
木々 【きぎ】 (many) trees, every tree, all kinds of trees
本木 【もとき】 original stock
青木 【あおき】 Japanese laurel, spotted laurel, Aucuba japonica, live tree
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: ぐ、 も、 もと
JLPT level: N5
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 勹
Frequency: 10020
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ホウ
訓読み / Kun reading: つつ.む
KKD2013: 3684
English meaning: wrapping enclosure, wrapping radical (no. 20)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 20 - wrap, embrace 勹
Compounds: RADICAL:tsutsumigamae ‘wrap’ ( 勺 勿 包 ), used in charactersrelated to enclosing
画数 / Stroke count: 2

Kanji print: 宀
Frequency: 10040
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ベン、 メン
English meaning: shaped crown, katakana u radical (no. 40)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 40 - roof 宀
Compounds: On reading compounds
宀部 【ベンブ】 "roof" kanji radical (radical 40)
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 亠
Frequency: 10008
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: トウ
English meaning: kettle lid radical (no. 8)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 8 - lid 亠
画数 / Stroke count: 2

Kanji print: 夊
Frequency: 10035
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: スイ
訓読み / Kun reading: ゆき
English meaning: winter variant radical (no. 34 -> rad 35)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 35 - go slowly 夊
Compounds: On reading compounds
夊繞 【スイニョウ】 kanji "suinyou" radical (radical 35)
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 羊
Frequency: 10123
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 3
音読み / On reading: ヨウ
訓読み / Kun reading: ひつじ
KKD2013: 2708
Halpern Core: SHEEP
English meaning: sheep
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 123 - sheep 羊 (⺶)
Phonetic: ヨウ - 羊 - sheep
Compounds: RADICAL: hitsuji ‘sheep’ ( 群 羣 羸 ), used in characters relatedto sheep
Top variant: ⺷ hitsujikanmuri ( 義 着 美 )
Left variant:hitsujihen ( 羝 × 羯 × 羚 )
On reading compounds
羊偏 [ひつじへん]kanji "sheep" radical at left​
羊毛 【ヨウモウ】 wool
羊肉 【ヨウニク】 mutton, lamb (meat)
羝羊 【テイヨウ】 ram (sheep), used to liken one to someone who lives their life by instinct
羚羊 【レイヨウ】 antelope
Kun reading compounds
羊 【ひつじ】 sheep (Ovis aries)
羊飼い 【ひつじかい】 shepherd, shepherdess
牡羊 【おひつじ】 ram
贖罪の羊 【しょくざいのひつじ】 sacrificial lamb
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: よ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): yang2
Parts: 并 王 羊
JLPT level: N1
画数 / Stroke count: 6

Kanji print: 鼻
Frequency: 10209
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 3
音読み / On reading: ビ
訓読み / Kun reading: はな
English meaning: nose, snout
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 209 -nose 鼻
Compounds: 鼻偏 -はなへん -kanji "nose" radical at left​
鼻部 -Radical 209​
On reading compounds
鼻息 【ハナイキ】 nasal breathing, person's pleasure, excitement
鼻炎 【ビエン】 rhinitis, coryza, nasal inflammation
阿鼻 【アビ】 Avici (lowest level of hell)
長鼻 【チョウビ】 proboscis, long nose
Kun reading compounds
鼻 【はな】 nose
鼻息 【はないき】 nasal breathing, person's pleasure, excitement
目鼻 【めはな】 eyes and nose,looks, facial features, shape, form
赤鼻 【あかはな】 red nose
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Parts: 田 目 自 鼻 廾
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 14

Kanji print: 毛
Frequency: 10082
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: モウ
訓読み / Kun reading: け
KKD2013: 4264
Halpern Core: HAIR (of humans or animals),fur, feather, wool,as thin as HAIR, slight,vegetation, trichome(hair of plant), 1/1000 or 1/1000 of 10%
English meaning: fur, hair, feather, down (rad 82 - fur, hair)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 82 -fur, hair 毛
Compounds: On reading compounds
毛 【モウ】 one-thousandth, 0.03 mm (one-thousandth of a sun), 0.01 percent (one-thousandth of a wari), 3.75 milligrams (one-thousandth of a monme), old monetary unit (0.0001 yen)
毛布 【モウフ】 blanket
不毛 【フモウ】 barren, sterile, infertile, unproductive (e.g. discussion), fruitless
再生毛 【サイセイモウ】 recycled wool, reclaimed wool
Kun reading compounds
毛 【け】 hair, fur, wool, down, plumage, feathers
毛皮 【けがわ】 fur, skin, pelt, kanji "fur" radical
お毛々 【おけけ】 pubic hair
猫っ毛 【ねこっけ】 fine, soft hair
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: めん、 も
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 長
Frequency: 10168
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: チョウ
訓読み / Kun reading: なが.い、 おさ
English meaning: leader, superior, senior
long
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 168 - long, grow 長 (镸)
Phonetic: チョウ -長 - long, leader, superior, senior
Compounds: On reading compounds
長 【チョウ】 head, chief, leader, elder, merit, strong point, superiority, major
長期 【チョウキ】 long-term
成長 【セイチョウ】 growth, development, growing up, becoming an adult, growth (of a company, the economy, etc.)
生長 【セイチョウ】 growth (of a plant)
Kun reading compounds
長い 【ながい】 long (distance), long (time), lengthy
長居 【ながい】 long visit, overstaying
長 【おさ】 head, chief, leader, elder, the greatest of all, the most excellent
長亀 【おさがめ】 leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
田長 【たおさ】 master of the rice field, chief farmer, lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
死出田長 【しでたおさ】 lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: お、 おしゃ、 たかし、 たけ、 な、 は、 ひさ
Parts: 長
Variants: 兏 镸
JLPT level: N5
画数 / Stroke count: 8

Kanji print: 皮
Frequency: 10107
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 3
音読み / On reading: ヒ
訓読み / Kun reading: かわ
KKD2013: 3771
Halpern Core: SKIN (of any kind): [orig] SKIN (of human beings or animals), hide, pelt; fur; leather; SKIN (of plants), bark, peel, husk, shell; appearance
English meaning: pelt, skin, hide, leather, skin radical (no. 107)
skin, hide, pelt, fur, rind, peel, husk, bark, shell, sheath
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 107 -skin 皮
Phonetic: ヒ; ハ (as phonetic); - 皮 - pelt, skin, hide, leather, skin radical (no. 107)
Compounds: 皮の皮 [ひのかわ]kanji "fur" radical​
On reading compounds
皮膚 【ヒフ】 skin
皮肉 【ヒニク】 cynicism, sarcasm, irony, satire
表皮 【ヒョウヒ】 epithelium, skin, rind
上皮 【ウワカワ】 outer layer (e.g. of skin), cuticle, epidermis, bark, rind, crust, film (on the surface of a liquid), scum, epithelium
Kun reading compounds
皮 【かわ】 skin, hide, pelt, fur, rind, peel, husk, bark, shell, sheath, wrapping, mask (hiding one's true nature), seeming
皮切り 【かわきり】 beginning, start
一皮 【ひとかわ】 unmasking
薄皮 【うすかわ】 thin skin
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Parts: 皮 又
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 5

Kanji print: 工
Frequency: 10048
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: コウ、 ク、 グ
訓読み / Kun reading: -
English meaning: manufacture
craft, construction, katakana e radical(no. 48)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 48 - work 工
Compounds: On reading compounds
工事 [こうじ]construction work​
工部 [こうぶ] word radical
工 【コウ】 (factory) worker
工員 【コウイン】 factory worker
起工 【キコウ】 setting to work
商工 【ショウコウ】 commerce and industry
工夫 【クフウ】 scheme, device, scheming, devising, figuring out, coming up with, solving ingeniously, dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)
工面 【クメン】 contrivance, raising (money)
竹細工 【タケザイク】 bamboo work
寄せ木細工 【ヨセギザイク】 wooden mosaic work, parquetry, wooden mosaic (e.g. on a piece of furniture), marquetry, marqueterie
具合 【グアイ】 condition, state, health, state (of health), way, manner, circumstance, luck, face, dignity, decency, propriety
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: もく
JLPT level: N4
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 毋
Frequency: 10080
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ブ、 ム
訓読み / Kun reading: はは、 ぼ、 ない、 なか.れ
KKD2013: 4255
Halpern Core: NAKARE; mother
English meaning: do not, must not, be not, mother radical (no. 80)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 80 - mother, do not 毋 (母, 毌)
Compounds: RADICAL: nakare ‘mother’ ( 毎 毒 ), used in characters related to mothers or for classification
Variant: 毌 haha or nakare ( 毎 毒 )
Kun reading compounds
勿れ 【なかれ】 must not, do not
Parts: 毋 母
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 用
Frequency: 10101
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: ヨウ
訓読み / Kun reading: もち.いる
English meaning: utilize, business, service, use, employ
things to do (radical 101 - use)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 101 - use 用 (甩)
Compounds: On reading compounds
用 【ヨウ】 business, task, errand, engagement, use, purpose, for the use of ..., used for ..., made for ..., call of nature, excretion
用意 【ヨウイ】 preparation, arrangements, provision, getting ready, laying out (e.g. a meal)
応用 【オウヨウ】 (practical) application, putting to practical use, applied
通用 【ツウヨウ】 popular use, circulation, to pass as, to pass for
Kun reading compounds
用いる 【もちいる】 to use, to make use of, to utilize, to utilise
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: たから
JLPT level: N4
画数 / Stroke count: 5

Kanji print: 止
Frequency: 10077
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: シ
訓読み / Kun reading: と.まる、 -ど.まり、 と.める、 -と.める、 -ど.め、 とど.める、 とど.め、 とど.まる、 や.める、 や.む、 -や.む、 よ.す、 -さ.す、 -さ.し
English meaning: stop, halt
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 77 -stop 止
Phonetic: シ - 止 - stop
Compounds: On reading compounds
止血 【シケツ】 stopping of bleeding, stanching, hemostasis, haemostasis
止音器 【シオンキ】 (piano) damper
抑止 【ヨクシ】 check, checkmate, stave off, control, restraint, inhibit, deterrent, deterrence
解止 【カイシ】 termination
Kun reading compounds
止偏 [とめへん]kanji "stop" radical at left​
止まる 【とまる】 to stop (moving), to come to a stop, to stop (doing, working, being supplied), to come to a halt, to cease, to be stopped, to be suspended, to alight, to perch on
止める 【とめる】 to stop, to turn off, to park, to prevent, to suppress (a cough), to hold back (tears), to hold (one's breath), to relieve (pain), to stop (someone from doing something), to dissuade, to forbid, to prohibit, to notice, to be aware of, to concentrate on, to pay attention to, to remember, to bear in mind, to fix (in place), to fasten, to tack, to pin, to nail, to button, to staple, to detain, to keep in custody
留める 【とどめる】 to stop, to stay (e.g. the night), to cease, to put an end to, to contain, to keep (in position, in place), to limit, to record (e.g. a fact), to retain
止め 【とどめ】 finishing blow, clincher
留める 【とどめる】 to stop, to stay (e.g. the night), to cease, to put an end to, to contain, to keep (in position, in place), to limit, to record (e.g. a fact), to retain
止まる 【とどまる】 to remain, to abide, to stay (in the one place), to be limited to, to be confined to
とどまるところを知らない 【とどまるところをしらない】 knowing no bounds, showing no signs of stopping or slowing down
止める 【やめる】 to stop (an activity), to cease, to discontinue, to end, to quit, to cancel, to abandon, to give up, to abolish, to abstain, to refrain
止む 【やむ】 to cease, to stop, to be over
やむを得ない 【やむをえない】 cannot be helped, unavoidable
止す 【よす】 to cease, to desist, to cut it out, to lay off (an activity), to drop (a subject) to abolish, to resign, to give up
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: どめ
JLPT level: N4
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 玉
Frequency: 10096
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: ギョク
訓読み / Kun reading: たま、 たま-、 -だま
English meaning: gem, sphere
jewel, ball (96 - jewel radical)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 96 - jade (king) 玉 (王)
Compounds: On reading compounds
玉偏 [タマヘン] kanji "jewel" radical at left (radical 96)​
玉 【ギョク】 precious stone (esp. jade), egg (sometimes esp. as a sushi topping), stock or security being traded, product being bought or sold, position (in finance, the amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer), geisha, time charge for a geisha, king (of the junior player)
玉石混淆 【ギョクセキコンコウ】 mixture of wheat and chaff, mixture of the good and bad, jumble of wheat and tares
珠玉 【シュギョク】 gem, jewel, beautiful, accomplished, charming
翠玉 【スイギョク】 emerald, jade
Kun reading compounds
玉 【たま】 ball, sphere, globe, orb, bead (of sweat, dew, etc.), drop, droplet, ball (in sports), pile (of noodles, etc.), bullet, bulb (i.e. a light bulb), lens (of glasses, etc.), bead (of an abacus), ball (i.e. a testicle), gem, jewel (esp. spherical; sometimes used figuratively), pearl, female entertainer (e.g. a geisha), person (when commenting on their nature), character, item, funds or person used as part of a plot, egg, coin, precious, beautiful, excellent
卵 【たまご】 eggs, egg, spawn, roe, hen egg, (an expert) in the making, beginning, origin, infancy
埼玉 【さいたま】 Saitama (city)
勾玉 【まがたま】 comma-shaped jewels
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: おう、 だん
Parts: 王 丶
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 5

Kanji print: 非
Frequency: 10175
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 5
音読み / On reading: ヒ
訓読み / Kun reading: あら.ず
English meaning: not (radical 175)
un-, mistake, negative, injustice, non-
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 175 -wrong 非
Phonetic: ヒ, ハイ - 非 - not (hai nur als Leseklasse)
Compounds: On reading compounds
非 【ヒ】 fault, error, mistake, going poorly, being disadvantageous, being unfavorable, un-, non-, an-
非常に 【ヒジョウニ】 very, extremely, exceedingly
是非是非 【ゼヒゼヒ】 certainly, by all means
理非 【リヒ】 judgement of right and wrong (judgment)
Kun reading compounds
非ず 【あらず】 it is not so, no, never mind
非ずんば 【あらずんば】 if not
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
JLPT level: N3
画数 / Stroke count: 8

Kanji print: 魚
Frequency: 10195
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: ギョ
訓読み / Kun reading: うお、 さかな、 -ざかな
English meaning: fish
(radical 195)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 195 - fish 魚
Compounds: On reading compounds
魚雷 【ギョライ】 torpedo
魚介類 【ギョカイルイ】 marine products, seafood, fish and shellfish
生魚 【セイギョ】 raw fish, fresh fish
稚魚 【チギョ】 fry, juvenile fish, fingerling
Kun reading compounds
魚 【さかな】 fish
魚市場 【うおいちば】 fish market
生魚 【せいぎょ】 raw fish, fresh fish
活魚 【かつぎょ】 live fish and shellfish (kept in a tank in a restaurant)
魚 【さかな】 fish
魚釣り 【さかなつり】 fishing
焼き立ての魚 【やきたてのさかな】 fish hot from the oven
旬の魚 【しゅんのさかな】 fish in season
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: い
Parts: 杰 田 魚
JLPT level: N4
画数 / Stroke count: 11

Kanji print: 飛
Frequency: 10183
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 4
音読み / On reading: ヒ
訓読み / Kun reading: と.ぶ、 と.ばす、 -と.ばす
English meaning: fly (radical 183)
fly, skip (pages), scatter
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 183 - fly 飛
Compounds: On reading compounds
飛 【ヒ】 rook
飛行機 【ヒコウキ】 aeroplane, airplane, aircraft
犠飛 【ギヒ】 sacrifice fly
中飛 【チュウヒ】 center fly, centre fly
Kun reading compounds
飛ぶ 【とぶ】 to fly, to soar, to jump, to leap, to spring, to bound, to hop
飛ぶ鳥も落とす勢い 【とぶとりもおとすいきおい】 great vigor, tremendous energy, forceful enough to knock down birds in flight
飛ばす 【とばす】 to fly, to fire, to hurl, to launch, to make fly, to skip over, to omit, to drop (e.g. stitch), to run or drive fast, to gallop, to spread a rumour (rumor), to tell a story, to tell a joke, to remove, to get rid of, to transfer, to attack, to jeer at
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: あす、 とび
JLPT level: N3
画数 / Stroke count: 9

Kanji print: 寸
Frequency: 10041
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 6
音読み / On reading: スン
訓読み / Kun reading: -
KKD2013: 3652
Halpern Core: A BIT OF, very little, small, brief,very little, small; sun, (Japanese) inch: unit of length equiv. to approx. 3.03 cm or 1/10 of a shaku ( 尺 ); measurement, measure, dimensions, length, size
English meaning: measurement, tenth of a shaku, a little, small
measure (rad 41 - thumb, inch 寸)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 41 - thumb, inch, hand 寸
Compounds: On reading compounds
寸 【スン】 sun (approx. 3.03 cm)
寸法 【スンポウ】 measurement, size, extent, dimension, plan, intention, arrangement, schedule
一寸 【イッスン】 one sun (approx. 3.03 cm), little bit (of time, distance, etc.)
原寸 【ゲンスン】 actual size, full size
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: す、 みき
JLPT level: N1
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 彡
Frequency: 10059
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: サン、 セン
English meaning: three, hair ornament, short hair or fur radical (no. 59)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 59 - bristle, beard 彡
Compounds: On reading compounds
彡旁 【サンヅクリ】 kanji "three" or "hair ornament" radical at right
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 虫
Frequency: 10142
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: チュウ、 キ
訓読み / Kun reading: むし
English meaning: insect, bug, temper
(rad 142 - insect 虫)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 142 - insect 虫
Compounds: On reading compounds
虫垂炎 【チュウスイエン】 appendicitis
虫えい 【チュウエイ】 gall (abnormal plant growth formed by insects)
幼虫 【ヨウチュウ】 larva, grub, maggot
寄生虫 【キセイチュウ】 parasite
虫部 【キブ】 insect radical, worm radical
蟻巻 【アリマキ】 aphid, plant louse, plant lice
Kun reading compounds
虫 【むし】 insect, bug, cricket, moth, worm
虫歯 【むしば】 cavity, tooth decay, decayed tooth, dental caries
苦虫 【にがむし】 bitter-tasting bug
馬追虫 【うまおいむし】 Hexacentrus japonicus (species of katydid), Hexacentrus unicolor (species of katydid)
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: む
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 6

Kanji print: 方
Frequency: 10070
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: ホウ
訓読み / Kun reading: かた、 -かた、 -がた
English meaning: direction, person, alternative
(rad 70 - square 方)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 70 - square 方
Phonetic: 方- ホウ -direction, person, alternative
Compounds: On reading compounds
方 【ホウ】 direction, way, side, area (in a particular direction), side (of an argument, etc.), one's part, type, category, field (of study, etc.), indicates one side of a comparison, way, method, manner, means, length (of each side of a square)
方向 【ホウコウ】 direction, orientation, bearing, way, course (e.g. of action)
途方 【トホウ】 way, destination, reason
右方 【ウホウ】 right side, style of Japanese court music
Kun reading compounds
方 【かた】 direction, way, person, lady, gentleman, method of, manner of, way of, care of .., person in charge of .., side (e.g. "on my mother's side")
方々 【かたがた】 they (of people), gentlemen (of the ...), you (usu. plural), various
味方 【みかた】 friend, ally, supporter, taking sides with, supporting, standing by, backing up
大方 【おおかた】 large part, greater part, majority, people in general, general public, public at large, mostly, for the most part, almost, nearly, probably, maybe, perhaps
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: から、 な、 なた、 ふさ、 まさ、 みち、 も、 わ
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 矛
Frequency: 10110
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 8
音読み / On reading: ム、 ボウ
訓読み / Kun reading: ほこ
English meaning: halberd, arms, festival float
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 110 - spear 矛
Compounds: On reading compounds
矛盾 【ムジュン】 contradiction, inconsistency
矛盾原理 【ムジュンゲンリ】 principle of contradiction (logic)
Kun reading compounds
矛 【ほこ】 long-handled Chinese spear, lance, pike, weapon, arms, grip of a bow, parade float decorated with long-handled Chinese spears
矛先 【ほこさき】 point of spear, spearhead, brunt, aim of attack, force of argument
銅矛 【どうほこ】 bronze hoko, bronze halberd, bronze spearhead
瓊矛 【ぬほこ】 jeweled spear (jewelled)
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Parts: 矛 マ
JLPT level: N1
画数 / Stroke count: 5

Kanji print: 廾
Frequency: 10055
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: キョウ、 ク
訓読み / Kun reading: にじゅう
English meaning: twenty, twenty or letter H radical (no. 55)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 55 -two hands, twenty 廾
Compounds: 二十脚 【にじゅうあし】 kanji "twenty legs" radical (radical 55)
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): gong3
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 耳
Frequency: 10128
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: ジ
訓読み / Kun reading: みみ
English meaning: ear (rad 128)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 128 - ear 耳
Compounds: On reading compounds
耳鼻科 【ジビカ】 otolaryngology, ear, nose, and throat department
耳鼻咽喉科 【ジビインコウカ】 otorhinolaryngology, otolaryngology, ear, nose and throat department
中耳 【チュウジ】 middle ear, tympanum
外耳 【ガイジ】 external ear, concha
Kun reading compounds
耳 【みみ】 ear, hearing, edge, crust, selvedge (non-fray machined edge of fabrics), selvage
耳障り 【みみざわり】 hard (on the ears), offensive (to the ear), rasping, rough, harsh, grating, jarring, cacophonous
遠耳 【とおみみ】 sharp hearing
兎耳 【うさぎみみ】 long ears, gossiper
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: がみ
JLPT level: N3
画数 / Stroke count: 6

Kanji print: 文
Frequency: 10067
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 1
音読み / On reading: ブン、モン
訓読み / Kun reading: ふみ、 あや
English meaning: sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan, literary radical (no. 67)
writings
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 67 - script, literature 文
Compounds: On reading compounds
文 【ブン】 sentence, composition, text, writings, the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts), academia, literature, statement
文章 【ブンショウ】 writing, composition, essay, article, prose, (writing) style, sentence
漢文 【カンブン】 Chinese classical writing, Chinese classics, writing composed entirely of kanji
和文 【ワブン】 Japanese text, sentence in Japanese
文 【モン】 one-thousandth of a kan (obsolete unit of currency), 2.4 cm (traditional unit used to measure shoe sizes), letter, character, sentence, scripture, incantation
文章 【ブンショウ】 writing, composition, essay, article, prose, (writing) style, sentence
三文 【サンモン】 cheapness, farthing
びた一文 【ビタイチモン】 very small amount of money, penny, cent, nickel, dime
Kun reading compounds
文 【ふみ】 letter, writings
文香 【ふみこう】 scented insert (to enclose with a letter), perfumed insert
雁の文 【かりのふみ】 (a) letter
綾 【あや】 figure, design, twill weave, pattern of diagonal stripes, style (of writing), figure (of speech), design, plot, plan, minor market fluctuation, technical correction, cat's cradle, lease rod (in a loom)
文無鳥 【あやなしどり】 lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
美しい文 【うつくしいあや】 beautiful design
言葉は身の文 【ことばはみのあや】 words betray one's character
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: かざり、 ふ、 も
JLPT level: N4
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 羽
Frequency: 10124
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: ウ
訓読み / Kun reading: は、はね、わ
English meaning: feather, wing
counter for birds and rabbits (rad 124)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 124 - feather 羽
Compounds: On reading compounds
羽 【ウ】 fifth degree (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale)
羽毛 【ウモウ】 feathers, plumage, down
小翼羽 【ショウヨクウ】 alula, bastard wing
換羽 【カンウ】 molting
Kun reading compounds
羽 【はね】 feather, plume, down, wing, blade (of a fan, propeller, etc.), shuttlecock, arrow feathers
羽目 【はめ】 panel, wainscoting, wainscotting, plight, fix, bind, awkward situation, difficult situation, mess
白羽 【しらは】 white feather
切り羽 【きりは】 face (of a wall of coal or ore, etc.), working face (of a mine)
羽 【わ】 counter for birds and rabbits
羽 【はね】 feather, plume, down, wing, blade (of a fan, propeller, etc.), shuttlecock, arrow feathers
羽蟻 【はあり】 winged ant, flying ant
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: しゅう、 ば
Parts: 冫 羽
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 6

Kanji print: 至
Frequency: 10133
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 6
音読み / On reading: シ
訓読み / Kun reading: いた.る
English meaning: climax, arrive, proceed, reach, attain, result in
(133 -arrive)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 133 - arrive 至
Compounds: On reading compounds
至 【シ】 to ...
至急 【シキュウ】 urgent, pressing, immediate, prompt, express, urgently, promptly, at once, right away, without delay, as soon as possible
必至 【ヒッシ】 inevitable, necessary, foregone, brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
夏至 【ゲシ】 summer solstice
Kun reading compounds
至る 【いたる】 to arrive at (e.g. a decision), to reach (a stage), to attain, to lead to (a place), to get to, to come, to arrive, to result in
至る所 【いたるところ】 everywhere, all over, throughout
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: のぶ、 のり、 みち、 よし
Parts: 至 一 厶 土
JLPT level: N1

Kanji print: 瓜
Frequency: 10097
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 9
音読み / On reading: カ、 ケ
訓読み / Kun reading: うり
English meaning: melon (rad 97)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 97 -melon 瓜
Compounds: On reading compounds
瓜田 【カデン】 melon field, melon patch
瓜田に履を納れず 【カデンニクツヲイレズ】 avoid compromising situations
種なし西瓜 【タネナシスイカ】 seedless watermelon
木瓜 【ボケ】 Japanese quince (Chaenomeles speciosa), flowering quince
草木瓜 【クサボケ】 dwarf Japanese quince (Chaenomeles japonica), (Japanese) flowering quince, Maule's quince, japonica
Kun reading compounds
瓜 【うり】 melon, gourd
ウリ科 【ウリか】 Cucurbitaceae, gourd family
毛瓜 【もううり】 Okinawan yellow cucumber
赤瓜 【あかもううい】 Okinawan yellow cucumber
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: う
Parts: 厶 瓜
JLPT level: -
画数 / Stroke count: 6

Kanji print: 示
Frequency: 10113
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 5
音読み / On reading: ジ、 シ
訓読み / Kun reading: しめ.す
English meaning: show, indicate, point out, express, display
(radical 113)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 113 - sign 示 (礻)
Phonetic: ジ、 シ - 示 (礻) - SHOW, display, present
MAH-Story: 示 sign, altar
Compounds: On reading compounds
示威運動 【ジイウンドウ】 demonstration, parade, show of strength
示談 【ジダン】 settlement out of court
訓示 【クンジ】 instruction, direction, briefing
内示 【ナイジ】 unofficial announcement
示す 【シメス】 to (take out and) show, to demonstrate, to tell, to exemplify, to make apparent, to point out (finger, clock hand, needle, etc.), to indicate, to show, to represent, to signify, to display
示唆 【シサ】 suggestion, hint, implication
公示 【コウジ】 edict, public announcement
内示 【ナイジ】 unofficial announcement
Kun reading compounds
示す 【しめす】 to (take out and) show, to demonstrate, to tell, to exemplify, to make apparent, to point out (finger, clock hand, needle, etc.), to indicate, to show, to represent, to signify, to display
示偏 【しめすへん】 kanji "show" radical at left (radical 113)
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): shi4
Parts: 示 二 小
JLPT level: N3

Kanji print: 髟
Frequency: 10190
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ヒュウ、 ヒョウ
KKD2013: 1856
Halpern Core: KAMIKANMURI
English meaning: hair hanging long, mane, long hair radical (no.190)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 190 - long hair 髟
Compounds: RADICALkamikanmuri ‘hair’ ( 髪 鬚 髭), used in charactersrelated to human hair
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): biao1, shan1
Parts: 長 髟 彡
画数 / Stroke count: 10

Kanji print: 欠
Frequency: 10076
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 4
音読み / On reading: ケツ、 ケン
訓読み / Kun reading: か.ける、 か.く
English meaning: lack, gap, fail, yawning radical (no. 76)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 76 - lack, yawn 欠
Compounds: On reading compounds
欠 【ケツ】 lack, deficiency, vacancy
欠乏 【ケツボウ】 want, shortage, famine
酸欠 【サンケツ】 oxygen deficiency, oxygen shortage, lack of oxygen
補欠 【ホケツ】 filling a vacancy, supplementation, substitute, deputy, alternate, spare
欠伸 【アクビ】 yawn, yawning, kanji "yawning" radical (radical 76)
欠缺 【ケンケツ】 lacuna, gap where something is lacked
Kun reading compounds
欠ける 【かける】 to be chipped, to be damaged, to be broken, to be lacking, to be missing, to be insufficient, to be short, to be deficient, to be negligent toward, (of the moon) to wane, to go into eclipse
欠く 【かく】 to chip, to nick, to break, to crack, to lack
欠くことができない 【かくことができない】 indispensable, essential, necessary
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Parts: 欠 人 勹  //  Variants: 缺 缼
JLPT level: N3

Kanji print: 甘
Frequency: 10099
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 8
音読み / On reading: カン
訓読み / Kun reading: あま.い、 あま.える、 あま.やかす、 うま.い
English meaning: sweet (radical 99)
sweet, coax, pamper, be content, sugary
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 99 - sweet 甘
Compounds: On reading compounds
甘味 【アマミ】 sweetness, sugary taste, sweets, dessert, cake, charm, appeal, taste, flavour, flavor
さつま芋 【サツマイモ】 sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
Kun reading compounds
甘い 【あまい】 sweet-tasting, sweet, sugary, sugared, fragrant (smelling), sweet (music), lightly salted, light in salt, not spicy, naive, overly optimistic, soft on, generous, indulgent, easy-going, lenient, half-hearted, not finished properly, insufficient, not satisfactory, inadequate, loose, mild, tempting, enticing, luring
甘い顔をする 【あまいかおをする】 to go easy on somebody, to be easygoing, to be lenient
甘える 【あまえる】 to behave like a spoiled child, to fawn on, to take advantage of, to presume upon (e.g. another's benevolence), to depend on
甘やかす 【あまやかす】 to pamper, to spoil
上手い 【うまい】 skillful, skilful, clever, expert, wise, successful, delicious, appetizing, appetising, tasty, fortunate, splendid, promising
うまい話 【うまいはなし】 too-good-to- be-true offers (e.g. scams and frauds), too-good-to- be-true stories
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: かも
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 5

Kanji print: 黒
Frequency: 10203
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 2
音読み / On reading: コク
訓読み / Kun reading: くろ、 くろ.ずむ、 くろ.い
English meaning: black
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 203 - 黒 black
Compounds: On reading compounds
黒煙 【コクエン】 black smoke
黒衣 【コクイ】 black clothes
大黒 【ダイコク】 god of wealth, monk's wife
二黒 【ジコク】 second of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Saturn and southwest)
Kun reading compounds
黒 【くろ】 black, black go stone, guilt, guilty person
黒い 【くろい】 black, dark, blackish, sun-tanned (skin), suspicious, criminal, illicit, darkened and dirty, sooty, covered in dirt, evil, wicked, black-hearted, inauspicious, ill-boding, unlucky
黒ずむ 【くろずむ】 to blacken, to darken
黒い 【くろい】 black, dark, blackish, sun-tanned (skin), suspicious, criminal, illicit, darkened and dirty, sooty, covered in dirt, evil, wicked, black-hearted, inauspicious, ill-boding, unlucky
黒い霧 【くろいきり】 thick fog (of suspicion), black veil of secrecy, covered-up crime, unethical act, etc.
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Parts: 杰 里 黒
JLPT level: N4
画数 / Stroke count: 1

Kanji print: 鼓
Frequency: 10207
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 8
音読み / On reading: コ
訓読み / Kun reading: つづみ
English meaning: drum, beat, rouse, muster (rad 207)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 207 - drum 鼓
Compounds: On reading compounds
鼓舞 【コブ】 inspiration, encouragement
鼓動 【コドウ】 beat, palpitation, pulsation, throbbing
大太鼓 【オオダイコ】 large drum, bass drum
御太鼓 【オタイコ】 very common way of tying a woman's kimono sash
Kun reading compounds
鼓 【つづみ】 hand drum
舌鼓 【したつづみ】 smacking one's lips
大鼓 【おおつづみ】 large hand drum
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Parts: 支 豆 鼓 并 十 又 口 士  //  Variants: 皷
JLPT level: N1
画数 / Stroke count: 13

Kanji print: 舛
Frequency: 10136
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ブ、 セン
訓読み / Kun reading: まい、 そむ.く
English meaning: dancing radical (no. 136)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 136 - opposite, dancing feet 舛 - まいあし
Phonetic: ブ、 セン - 舛 - opposite, dancing feet
Compounds: masu ‘dancing’ ( 舜 ), used for character classificationBottom variant: 舛󠄁 maiashi ( 舞)
Kun reading compounds
舞脚 【まいあし】 kanji "dancing legs" radical (radical 136)
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: ます
Parts: 舛 夕
画数 / Stroke count: 7

Kanji print: 缶
Frequency: 10121
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 8
音読み / On reading: カン
訓読み / Kun reading: かま
English meaning: tin can, container, jar radical (no. 121)
can
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 121 - jar 缶
Compounds: On reading compounds
缶 【カン】 can, tin, canned food
缶詰 【カンヅメ】 canned food, tinned food, confining someone (e.g. so they can concentrate on work), being stuck in a confined space
ドラム缶 【ドラムカン】 drum
開缶 【カイカン】 opening a can
Kun reading compounds
缶 【かま】 boiler
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: ふ、 べ
Parts: 缶 凵 山
Variants: 缻
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 6

Kanji print: 彐
Frequency: 10058
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ケイ
KKD2013: 4205
Halpern Core: KEIGASHIRA
English meaning: snout, pig's head radical (no. 58)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 58 - pig snout 彐 (彑)
Compounds: 彑頭 【けいがしら】 keigashira ‘pig’s head’, used for character classification.Variants: ⺕ 彑 keigashira ( 彗 彙 彖)
Parts: 彐  //  Variants: 彑,⺕
画数 / Stroke count: 3

Kanji print: 血
Frequency: 10143
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 3
音読み / On reading: ケツ
訓読み / Kun reading: ち
English meaning: blood
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 143 - blood 血
Compounds: On reading compounds
血液 【ケツエキ】 blood
血圧 【ケツアツ】 blood pressure
脳出血 【ノウシュッケツ】 cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral haemorrhage
熱血 【ネッケツ】 hot blood, zeal, fervor, fervour, ardor
Kun reading compounds
血 【ち】 blood, consanguinity
血筋 【ちすじ】 lineage, stock, strain, blood relationship
生き血 【いきち】 lifeblood
悪血 【あくち】 impure blood
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Parts: 皿 血
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 6

Kanji print: 臼
Frequency: 10134
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 8
音読み / On reading: キュウ、 グ
訓読み / Kun reading: うす、 うすづ.く
English meaning: mortar
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 134 - mortar 臼
Compounds: On reading compounds
臼蓋 【キュウガイ】 acetabular roof
臼蓋形成不全 【キュウガイケイセイフゼン】 acetabular dysplasia
亜脱臼 【アダッキュウ】 subluxation
頸椎脱臼 【ケイツイダッキュウ】 cervical dislocation
Kun reading compounds
臼 【うす】 millstone, mortar
臼茸 【うすたけ】 shaggy chanterelle (Turbinellus floccosus), scaly chanterelle, woolly chanterelle
提宇子 【だいうす】 God
搗き臼 【つきうす】 mortar (for pounding rice)
臼搗く 【うすづく】 to pound (rice, etc.)
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): jiu4
画数 / Stroke count: 6

Kanji print: 酉
Frequency: 10164
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 9
音読み / On reading: ユウ
訓読み / Kun reading: とり
English meaning: west, bird, sign of the bird, 5-7PM, tenth sign of Chinese zodiac, sake radical (no. 164)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 164 - wine, alcohol 酉 - ひよみのとり・こよみのとり・とりへん - bird of the zodiac radical
Compounds: On reading compounds
丁酉 【ヒノトトリ】 34th of the sexagenary cycle, thirty-fourth of the sexagenary cycle
癸酉 【ミズノトトリ】 tenth of the sexagenary cycle
Kun reading compounds
酉 【とり】 tenth sign of the Chinese zodiac (The Bird, 5pm-7pm, west, August)
酉年 【とりどし】 year of the cock
辛酉 【しんゆう】 58th year of the sexagenary cycle
乙酉 【きのととり】 twenty-second of the sexagenary cycle
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: なが、 みのる
JLPT level: N1
画数 / Stroke count: 7
Other fields (not shown on cards):
Kanji shorthand: -

Kanji print: 革
Frequency: 10177
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: 6
音読み / On reading: カク
訓読み / Kun reading: かわ
English meaning: leather, skin, reform, become serious
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 177 - leather, rawhide 革
Compounds: On reading compounds
革命 【カクメイ】 revolution, 58th year of the sexagenary cycle (in Onmyōdō)
革新 【カクシン】 reform, innovation
行革 【ギョウカク】 administrative reform
農地改革 【ノウチカイカク】 agrarian reform
Kun reading compounds
革 【かわ】 leather
革靴 【かわぐつ】 leather shoes, leather boots
藍革 【あいかわ】 indigo-dyed leather
負い革 【おいかわ】 sling (e.g. of a firearm)
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: -
Parts: 革 十 口 廾
JLPT level: N2
画数 / Stroke count: 9

Kanji print: 豸
Frequency: 10153
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: タイ、 チ
KKD2013: 3054
Halpern Core: MUJINA, wild animal
English meaning: snake, legless insect, badger, cat or clawed dog radical (no. 153)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 153 - cat, badger 豸
Compounds: radical:mujina ‘wild animal’ ( 貌 豹 貂 ), used in charactersrelated to wild animals
also 貓 older form of dog radical in modern cat 猫
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): zhi4 (used to be mau)
画数 / Stroke count: 7

Kanji print: 虍
Frequency: 10141
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: コ
KKD2013: 3964
Halpern Core: TORAKANMURI
English meaning: tiger spots, mottled, tiger or tiger crown radical (no. 141)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 141 - tiger stripes 虍
MAH-Story: RADICAL: torakanmuri ‘tiger’ ( 虚 虜 虐 ), used in characters related to tigers or their qualities
Variant: 虍 torakanmuri
Parts: 匕 卜 厂 虍
画数 / Stroke count: 6

Kanji print: 亅
Frequency: 10006
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ケツ
訓読み / Kun reading: かぎ
English meaning: feathered stick, barb radical (no. 6)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 6 -hook 亅
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): jue2
画数 / Stroke count: 1

Kanji print: 攴
Frequency: 10066
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ホク
KKD2013: 2475
Halpern Core: BOKUZUKURI, TOMATA
English meaning: strike, hit, folding chair radical (no. 66)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 66 - rap 攴 (攵)
Compounds: bokuzukuri or tomata ‘strike’ ( 敲 ), used in charactersrelated to striking, forcing or other actions
Right variant: 攵 nobun ( 政 放 整
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): po1
Parts: 攵
画数 / Stroke count: 4

Kanji print: 艸
Frequency: 10140
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ソウ
訓読み / Kun reading: くさ
English meaning: grass, plants, grass radical (no. 140)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 140 - grass 艸 (艹)
Compounds: -> Occurs only as艹 in compound kanji. <-
On reading compounds
草冠 【クサカンムリ】 kanji "grass radical" (radical 140), grass crown
艸部 【ソウブ】 kanji "grass radical" (radical 140)
Kun reading compounds
草 【くさ】 grass, weed, herb, thatch, ninja, not genuine, substandard, LOL, haha
草冠 【くさかんむり】 kanji "grass radical" (radical 140), grass crown
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): cao3
Parts: 屮 艾
画数 / Stroke count: 6

Kanji print: 龠
Frequency: 10214
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ヤク
訓読み / Kun reading: ふえ
KKD2013: 2670
Halpern Core: YAKU -‘flute’, used in characters related to music ormusical instruments
English meaning: flute
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 214 - flute 龠
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): yue4
Parts: 一 个 口 廾 冊 龠
画数 / Stroke count: 17

Kanji print: 丿
Frequency: 10004
常用漢字 / Jōyō grade: -
音読み / On reading: ヘツ
訓読み / Kun reading: えい、 よう
English meaning: katakana no radical (no. 4)
部首 / Radical / Determinative: 4 - slash 丿
Compounds: On reading compounds
丿乀 【ヘツポツ】 rocking from side to side (of a boat)
Nanori / Japanese Name Reading: の
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin): pie3
Parts: ノ
画数 / Stroke count: 1

Kanji print: 匸
Frequency: 10023
KKD2013: 4163
Halpern Core: KAKUSHIGAMAE
Compounds: RADICAL: kakushigamae ‘enclose’ (  ), used in characters related to concealing or enclosing Enclosure:  kakushigamae ( 区 匹 )