Animals & countryside
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On'yomi & Kun'yomi
On'yomi (音読み) is the reading borrowed from Chinese, usually used in compound words, e.g. 三月 (さんがつ, March).
Kun'yomi (訓読み) is the native Japanese reading, used when the kanji stands alone or takes kana endings, e.g. 三つ (みっつ, three items).
By convention the readings list writes on'yomi in katakana (シュ) and kun'yomi in hiragana (さけ). Example words show furigana in hiragana, so the same on'yomi can look like シュ in the list but しゅ in a word.
What the component colors mean
Blue - the main radical the kanji is filed under in dictionaries.
Green - a component that hints at the meaning.
Orange - a component that hints at the reading (sound).
Grey - another building block, with no clear meaning or sound role.
fish shop
goldfish
river fish
calf
beef
milk
Also the counter for birds and rabbits (一羽, 二羽).
sound of wings
feathers, down
one bird
horn (instrument)
triangle
square, quadrangle
to chirp, to cry (animal)
to sound, to ring
animal cry
baseball
field, plain
vegetables
hometown
mountain village
one ri (~3.9 km)
Practice
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