Fire & grain
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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.
inflammation
flames, blaze
pneumonia
focus, focal point
impatience, fretting
to burn, to scorch
cooking, kitchen work
rice cooker
to cook (rice)
nuclear reactor
fireplace, heater
blast furnace
pure, genuine
extract, excerpt
unrefined, boorish
crude; wasteful
rough, sloppy
coarse, rough
adhesion, stickiness
clay
to be sticky; to persist
food, provisions
army provisions
provisions, rations
Practice
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