Kanji 友

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Radical: ⼜ (29)

Strokes: 4

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On:

ユウ

yuu

Kun:

とも

tomo

Reading in names:

う、ど、ゆ

u, do, yu

Meanings:

друг

friend

друг

Grade: 2

JLPT: 5

Kanji shape:

Kanji elements: 又

Homonyms: 供, 共

LookAlike: 反

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"ДРУЗЬЯ испивают с нами горькую ЧАШУ(справа) бытия и помогают нести наш КРЕСТ(слева)"

V-moravec

11.04.2019 22:16

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Можно представить будто ДРУГ (слева, только внешнее сходство с туловищем человека) указывает рукой на стул (справа, только внешнее сходство) и говорит "присаживайся, ДРУЖИЩЕ"

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chillarea92

12.01.2022 11:51

Examples

友人

ゆうじん

yuujin

друг

friend

友情

ゆうじょう

yuujou

дружба

friendship

友達

ともだち

tomodachi

друг

friend

親友

しんゆう

shinyuu

близкий друг; закадычный друг

close friend

Reading in other languages

Korean: 우

Korean (latin): u

Pinyin: you3

Vietnam: Hữu

Encoding

BIG5: A4 CD

DECIMAL: 21451

HEX: 53CB

JIS_LEVEL: 1

MINKUTEN: 1-45-07

UTF16: 53CB

UTF8: E5 8F 8B

Dictionary indexes

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A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Ken Henshall): 234

A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall): 214

Essential Kanji (P.G. O'Neill): 158

Gakken Kanji Dictionary ("A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage"): 543

Japanese For Busy People: 2.18

Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki; White Rabbit Press): 30

Japanese Names (P.G. O'Neill): 70

Kanji & Kana (Spahn & Hadamitzky): 264

Kanji & Kana (Spahn & Hadamitzky, 2 edition): 264

Kanji Learners Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 1999): 1873

Kanji Learners Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 2 edition, 2013): 2553

Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono): 79

Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide: 268

Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 2013): 3670

Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette): 711

Morohashi Daikanwajiten (Volume 2, page 0685): 3119

New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 1990): 2952

Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig): 704

Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig, 6 edition): 760

The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley): 451

The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Andrew Nelson): 858

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