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Radical: ⼽ (62)

Strokes: 8

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On:

ワク、コク、イキ

waku, koku, iki

Kun:

あ.る、あるい、あるいは

a.ru, arui, aruiha

Reading in names:

Meanings:

some, one, or, possibly, a certain

один; некоторый

Grade: 9

Kanji shape:

Kanji elements: 一, 口, 戈

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Examples

ある時

あるとき

arutoki

once (e.g. "once, when I was studying ..");on one occasion;at one point

ある人

あるひと

aruhito

someone (unspecified, but someone in particular);a certain person

ある日

あるひ

aruhi

one day (e.g. "one day while studying, ..")

或

ある

aru

a certain ...;some ...

некий, некоторый, один

或いは

あるいは

aruiha

or;either ... or; maybe;perhaps;possibly; sometimes;some

или; либо; возможно; пожалуй; 1) или, либо; 2) возможно, пожалуй; 3) одни…, а другие

ある程度

あるていど

aruteido

to some extent;to a certain extent

ある種

あるしゅ

arushu

certain;some kind of;some sort of;of sorts

と或る

とある

toaru

a certain ...

ある程度まで

あるていどまで

aruteidomade

to some degree;up to a point;to some extent

或は

あるは

aruha

sometimes;some; or;either ... or

или, либо, возможно

Reading in other languages

Korean: 혹

Korean (latin): hog

Pinyin: huo4

Vietnam: Hoặc

Encoding

BIG5: A9 CE

DECIMAL: 25110

HEX: 6216

JIS_LEVEL: 1

MINKUTEN: 1-16-31

UTF16: 6216

UTF8: E6 88 96

Dictionary indexes

Essential Kanji (P.G. O'Neill): 1894

Japanese Names (P.G. O'Neill): 750

Kanji Learners Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 2 edition, 2013): 2763

Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 2013): 3978

Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette): 621

Morohashi Daikanwajiten (Volume 5, page 0027): 11563

Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig): 2091

Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig, 6 edition): 2234

The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley): 493

The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Andrew Nelson): 1802

The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary (John Haig): 2030

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