Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
Sino-, China
On:
カン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
1487 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 漢 【カン】 China, Han dynasty (of China; 202 BCE-220 CE), Han (majority Chinese ethnic group), man
  • 漢字 【カンジ】 kanji, Chinese character
  • 巨漢 【キョカン】 giant
  • 門外漢 【モンガイカン】 outsider, layman, amateur

Readings

Japanese names:
はん
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
han4
Korean:
han

Spanish

  • antigua región de China
  • China
  • hombre

Portuguese

  • Sino-
  • China

French

  • sino-
  • Chine
572 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
265 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
442 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1394 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2662 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
401 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
212 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1860 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.19 Japanese for Busy People
556 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
565 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
527 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1230 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
808 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
471 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
602 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1592 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18068P Morohashi
657 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3281 New Nelson (John Haig)
1578 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1701 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
418 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
363 2001 Kanji
3a10.17 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-10 SKIP code
3413.4 Four corner code
1-20-33 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6f22 Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
child, seed
Parts:
character, letter, word, section of village
Kun:
あざあざな-な
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
485 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 字 【ジ】 character (esp. kanji), letter, written text, handwriting, penmanship, the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
  • 字形 【ジケイ】 character style, character form
  • 題字 【ダイジ】 title lettering
  • 英字 【エイジ】 English letter, alphabetic character

Kun reading compounds

  • 字 【あざ】 section of village
  • 字 【あざな】 Chinese courtesy name (name formerly given to adult Chinese men, used in place of their given name in formal situations), nickname, section of a village
  • 大字 【おおあざ】 larger section (of village)
  • 小字 【こあざ】 small administrative unit (of a village)
  • 字 【あざな】 Chinese courtesy name (name formerly given to adult Chinese men, used in place of their given name in formal situations), nickname, section of a village

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi4
Korean:
ja

Spanish

  • carácter
  • letra
  • palabra

Portuguese

  • caracter
  • letra
  • palavra
  • seção de aldeia

French

  • caractère
  • lettre
  • mot
  • hameau
86 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
78 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
28 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
612 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1281 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
121 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
156 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2.17 Japanese for Busy People
110 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
110 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
528 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
457 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2696 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1374 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1860 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
188 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6942 Morohashi
2172 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1285 New Nelson (John Haig)
185 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
197 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
57 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
747 2001 Kanji
3m2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-3 SKIP code
2-3-2 SKIP code
3040.7 Four corner code
1-27-90 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b57 Unicode hex code