Entry
  1. Noun

    freckle; lentigo; ephelis

    Usually written using kana alone

    家では赤味がかった髪とそばかすのせいで、母が侮蔑を込めて「にんじん」と名付け、皆にもそう呼ばせています。
    At home, because of his reddish hair and freckles, his mother scornfully named him "carrot" and had everybody else call him that.
  2. buckwheat chaff

    Archaicorig. meaningsee 蕎麦殻

Also written 蕎麦滓【そばかす】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

sparrow

Kun
すずめ
On
ジャクジャンサクシャク
Strokes
11
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Frequency
1856 of 2500
Radical
short-tailed bird

Built from

Used in names as

ざく

Dictionary and index codes (17)
CodeReference
2-4-7, 3-4-7, 4-11-2SKIP code
8c3.2The Kanji Dictionary
9021.4Four corner code
1175deroo
96c0Unicode hex code
1-31-93JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
233Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6496New Nelson (John Haig)
2469New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3117Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2178Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2878Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2890Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1530Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
41954Morohashi
que4, qiao1, qiao3Pinyin reading
jagKorean reading
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

spot, blemish, speck, patches

Kun
まだら
On
ハン
Strokes
12
Taught
Junior high
Frequency
2165 of 2500
Radical
script

Built from

Used in names as

Dictionary and index codes (17)
CodeReference
1-4-8SKIP code
4f8.3The Kanji Dictionary
1111.4Four corner code
6591Unicode hex code
1-40-35JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2950Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2371New Nelson (John Haig)
1000New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1260Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
911Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2556Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1865Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1609Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
13470Morohashi
1469Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
ban1Pinyin reading
banKorean reading