kanji name comparison

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1		The table below compares the English names given to kanji by various sources.
2	notes:	old edition	old edition				For RTK each name must be unique	Kenkyusha gives the best overall fit. But note that duplicate names and multiple names are allowed.	From Wikipedia. This is the new joyo kanji list used from the year 2010	Kanjidamage. A less academic approach. Includes mnemonics for readings.	KanjiDic often lists several different meanings, including one taken directly from RTK1. (So the fact that the RTK1 keyword also appears in KanjiDic is not a confirmation of its correctness.)
3	source /links:	Heisig	Heisig	Kenkyusha	Kenkyusha		Remembering the Kanji 1 & 3 by James Heisig	NJECD and Kanji Learner's dictionaries by Jack Halpern	Wikipedia Joyo Kanji list	KanjiDamage	KanjiDic by Jim Breen / Monash University	kanji frequency
4		RTK1	RTK2	NJECD	Learner's	kanji	RTK1, RTK3	NJECD & Kanji Learner's dictionaries	Wiki name	KanjiDamage	KanjiDic by Jim Breen / Monash University

5		1	965	3341	2105	一	One	one	one	one	one	2
6		2	1	1922	1224	二	two	two	two	two	two	30
7		3	2	1924	1225	三	three	three	three	three	three	25
8		4	967	3044	1928	四	four	four	four	the numeral 4	four	141
9		5	85	3436	2142	五	five	five	five	five	five	138
10		6	971	1965	1244	六	six	six	six	six	six	212
11		7	968	3362	2109	七	seven	seven	seven	seven	seven	221
12		8	1159	3	1859	八	eight	eight	eight	eight	eight	164
13		9	969	3369	2112	九	nine	nine	nine	the number 9	nine	213
14		10	971	3365	2110	十	ten	ten	ten	ten	ten	38
15		11	1556	3382	2119	口	mouth	mouth	mouth	mouth /small box radical	mouth	229
16		12	561	3027	1915	日	day	day, sun, Japan	day	sun / day	day, sun, Japan	1
17		13	546	2956	1876	月	month	moon, month	month, moon	moon / month / organ radical	month, moon	12
18		14	1862	3041	1925	田	rice field	rice field	rice paddy	rice field	rice field, rice paddy	46
19		15	1129	3043	1927	目	eye	eye, item	eye	eye	eye, class, look, insight, experience, care, favor	54
20		16	1215	2002	1262	古	old	old	old	old	old	332
21		17	86	2407	1558	吾	I	I			I, my, our, one's own	1552
22		18	320	2434	1576	冒	risk	risk	risk	risk	risk, face, defy, dare, damage, assume (a name)	1315
23		19	354	880	593	朋	companion	comrade			companion, friend	2015
24		20	436	855	572	明	bright	bright, clear	bright	bright	bright, light	64
25		21	308	462	338	唱	chant	sing	chant	chant	chant, recite, call upon, yell	1180
26		22	309	2474	1601	晶	sparkle	crystal	sparkle	crystal	sparkle, clear, crystal	1539
27		23	1582	2248	1437	品	goods	article	article	products	goods, refinement, dignity, article, counter for meal courses	156
28		24	39	2187	1385	呂	spine	phonetic (ro)	spine	washtub	spine, backbone	1569
29		25	580	2414	1564	昌	prosperous	prospering			prosperous, bright, clear	1514
30		26	1835	2390	1549	早	early	early, quick	early	early /fast	early, fast	334
31		27	581	2977	1890	旭	rising sun	rising sun			rising sun, morning sun	1637
32		28	7	3496	2178	世	generation	world, age	world	generation/ society	generation, world, society, public	132
33		29	1809	2561	1631	胃	stomach	stomach	stomach	stomach	stomach, paunch, crop, craw	1685
34		30	715	2389	1548	旦	nightbreak	daybreak	daybreak	husband	nightbreak, dawn, morning	2021
35		31	716	919	622	胆	gallbladder	gallbladder	gall bladder	gall bladder・ to be daring	gall bladder, courage, pluck, nerve	1368
36		32	582	1939	1232	亘	span	extend over			span, request	2093
37		33	2173	3482	2170	凹	concave	concave	concave		concave, hollow, sunken	2146
38		34	2172	3486	2174	凸	convex	convex	convex		convex, beetle brow, uneven	2083
39		35	1605	14	5	旧	olden times	former	old times	former	old times, old things, old friend, former, ex-	730
40		36	945	3525	2195	自	oneself	self	oneself	my own	oneself	21
41		37	89	3493	2175	白	white	white	white	white	white	336
42		38	550	2026	1279	百	hundred	hundred	hundred	hundred	hundred	195
43		39	57	3451	2150	中	in	middle, in	middle	middle	in, inside, middle, mean, center	7
44		40	4	3411	2132	千	thousand	thousand	thousand	thousand	thousand	174
45		41	1502	2186	1384	舌	tongue	tongue	tongue	tongue	tongue, reed, clapper	1745
46		42	510	3455	2154	升	measuring box	sho	measuring box		measuring box, 1.8 liter	1934
47		43	511	2415	1565	昇	rise up	ascend	rise up	rise up	rise up	950
48		44	1861	3417	2134	丸	round	round	circle	round	round, full, month, perfection, -ship, pills, make round, roll up, curl up, seduce, explain away	596
49		45	53	2935	1864	寸	measurement	a bit of	measurement	tiny amount / glue (bottom radical)	measurement, foot/10	1579
50		46	1051	2644	1690	専	specialty	exclusive	specialty	specialty	specialty, exclusive, mainly, solely	514
51		47	1380	151	112	博	Dr.	extensive, doctor	Dr.	museum, extensive	Dr., command, esteem, win acclaim, Ph.D., exposition, fair	754
52		48	1710	2003	1263	占	fortune-telling	occupy, divine	fortune telling	fortune teller / occupy	fortune-telling, divining, forecasting, occupy, hold, have, get, take	781
53		49	1657	3404	2128	上	above	up	up	above, raise	above, up	15
54		50	958	3378	2115	下	below	down	below	below, lower	below, down, descend, give, low, inferior	66
55		51	1639	2064	1307	卓	eminent	table, prominent	eminent	dinner table	eminent, table, desk, high	1389
56		52	330	1695	1114	朝	morning	morning, dynasty	morning	morning	morning, dynasty, regime, epoch, period, (North) Korea	270
57		53	583	2155	1363	只	only	free of charge, ordinary			only, free, in addition	2096
58		54	584	2543	1614	貝	shellfish	shellfish	shellfish	shellfish/money radical	shellfish	1710
59		55	312	2083	1321	貞	upright	chaste	upright	chastity	upright, chastity, constancy, righteousness	1296
60		56	839	2269	1454	員	employee	member	member	clerk	employee, member, number, the one in charge	72
61		57	1013	2544	1615	見	see	see	see	look	see, hopes, chances, idea, opinion, look at, visible	18
62		58	1575	2546	1617	児	newborn babe	child	child	baby	newborn babe, child, young of animals	621
63		59	298	1929	1226	元	beginning	origin	origin	basis	beginning, former time, origin	209
64		60	585	2086		頁	page	page			page, leaf	2290
65		61	299	1040	712	頑	stubborn	stubborn	stubborn	stubborn	stubborn, foolish, firmly	1360
66		62	342	2938	1866	凡	mediocre	commonplace	mediocre	mediocre	mediocre	1653
67		63	1606	2091	1327	負	defeat	bear, lose	lose	lose	defeat, negative, -, minus, bear, owe, assume a responsibility	436
68		64	973	2936	1865	万	ten thousand	ten thousand	ten thousand	10000	ten thousand	193
69		65	1573	2967	1881	句	phrase	phrase, haiku	phrase	verse of a poem	phrase, clause, sentence, passage, paragraph, counter for haiku	1100
70		66	585	827	553	肌	texture	skin	texture	human skin	texture, skin, body, grain	1604
71		67	372	2978	1891	旬	decameron	ten-day period	10-day period (of the month)	to be in season / that time of the month	decameron, 10day period, season (for specific products	969
72		68	2197	2933	1863	勺	ladle	shaku			ladle, one tenth of a go, dip	3210
73		69	1129	1125	767	的	bull’s eye	target, adjectival suffix	target	motivation, \"-ish\"	bull's eye, mark, target, object, adjective ending	42
74		70	1565	2265	1452	首	neck	head, neck, leader	neck	neck	neck	240
75		71	565	3339	2104	乙	fishguts	second	the latter	second rank / girl	the latter, duplicate, strange, witty	1725
76		72	1045	1260	846	乱	riot	disordered	riot	disorder	riot, war, disorder, disturb	700
77		73	1325	2932	1862	直	straightaway	straight, fix	straight	heal / direct contact	straightaway, honesty, frankness, fix, repair	210
78		74	1124	2552	1622	具	tool	implement	tool	tool	tool, utensil, means, possess, ingredients, counter for armor, suits, sets of furniture	565
79		75	923	2111	1337	真	true	true	true	truth	true, reality, Buddhist sect	263
80		76	114	3381	2118	工	craft	manufacture, construction	craft	craft or industry	craft, construction	247
81		77	5	2974	1887	左	left	left	left (direction)	left	left	577
82		78	1754	2975	1888	右	right	right	right (direction)	right	right	592
83		79	1066	2983	1895	有	possess	have	have	exist	possess, have, exist, happen, occur, approx	242
84		80	573	1529	1028	賄	bribe	bribe	bribe	bribe, or provide capital to	bribe, board, supply, finance	1591
85		81	120	2281	1463	貢	tribute	tribute	tribute		tribute, support, finance	1281
86		82	119	567	415	項	paragraph	clause	paragraph	item/topic / paragraph	paragraph, nape of neck, clause, item, term (expression)	903
87		83	1831	2926	1857	刀	sword	sword	sword	sword	sword, saber, knife	1404
88		84	2199	2929	1860	刃	blade	blade	blade	blade	blade, sword, edge	1623
89		85	504	27	15	切	cut	cut	cut	cut / important	cut, cutoff, be sharp	198
90		86	677	2001	1261	召	seduce	summon	summon	summon	seduce, call, send for, wear, put on, ride in, buy, eat, drink, catch (cold)	1566
91		87	678	894	602	昭	shining	luminous	shining	bright ; Showa era	shining, bright	796
92		88	266	1444	967	則	rule	rule	rule	rule	rule, follow, based on, model after	808
93		89	745	1776	1161	副	vice-	secondary	vice	side- or vice-	vice-, duplicate, copy	678
94		90	540	1117	760	別	separate	separate, another	separate	separate	separate, branch off, diverge, fork, another, extra, specially	196
95		91	1064	3348	2106	丁	street	town subsection, miscellaneous counter	ward	nail	street, ward, town, counter for guns, tools, leaves or cakes of something, even number, 4th calendar sign	970
96		92	1459	1113	756	町	village	town	town	neighborhood , small town	village, town, block, street	220
97		93	105	2969	1882	可	can	~able, approve	possible	possible	can, passable, mustn't, should not, do not	320
98		94	1460	145	108	頂	place on the head	summit, receive humbly	place on the head	summit / climax	place on the head, receive, top of head, top, summit, peak	1147
99		95	1077	3390	2125	子	child	child, noun suffix	child	child	child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac	39
100		96	1724	179	131	孔	cavity	open hole	cavity		cavity, hole, slit, very, great, exceedingly	1979