501-1000 of 2500 Kanji

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2,500 kanji ordered in a list that expresses the relative frequency of occurence of a character in the modern Japanese. The survey is based on newspaper articles.

齢【よわい】 (one's) age
歴【れき】 history of; experience of
列【れつ】 row; line; file; column; queue; rank; procession / company (of someone); group; ranks / sequence / counter for rows
道【みち】 road; path; street; lane; passage / route; way / distance; journey / road (e.g. to victory); course / way (of living, proper conduct, etc.); moral principles / teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma / field (e.g. of medicine); subject; speciality / means; way; method
露【つゆ】 dew / tears / (not) a bit; (not) at all
老【ろう】 old age; age; old people; the old; the aged; senior; elder
録【ろく】 record; transcript
枠【わく】 frame; framework / border; box / limit; restriction; quota
湾【わん】 bay; gulf; inlet
良【りょう】 good / B grade (in an A, B, C ... system)
林【はやし】 woods; forest; copse; thicket / bunch; line (of something); collection
輪【わ】 ring; circle; loop / hoop / wheel / circle (e.g. of friends)
塁【るい】 base; bag; sack / fortress; stronghold
たぐい《類い》 kind; sort; type / equal; match; peer
令【れい】 command; order; dictation
冷や【ひや】 cold water / cold sake / cold; cool; chilled; unheated
鈴【すず】 bell (often globular)
そもそも《抑》 in the first place; to begin with; from the start; originally; ab initio / after all; anyway; actually; well, ...; ... on earth (e.g. "what on earth?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?") / beginning; start
欲【よく】 greed; craving; desire; avarice; wants
乱【らん】 revolt; rebellion; war
裏【うら】 opposite side; bottom; other side; side hidden from view; undersurface; reverse side / rear; back; behind / lining; inside / in the shadows; behind the scenes; offstage; behind one's back / more (to something than meets the eye); hidden side (e.g. of one's personality); unknown circumstances; different side / proof / opposite (of a prediction, common sense, etc.); contrary / inverse (of a hypothesis, etc.) / bottom (of an inning); last half (of an inning)
離【り】 li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
六【ろく】 six
律【りつ】 law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation / vinaya (rules for the monastic community) / Ritsu (school of Buddhism) / lushi (style of Chinese poem) / (musical) pitch / six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale / Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale, similar to Dorian mode (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) / (in traditional Eastern music) step (corresponding to a Western semitone)
ほぼ《略》 almost; roughly; approximately
旅【たび】 travel; trip; journey
了【りょう】 finish; completion; understanding
灘【なだ】 open sea
おす《雄》 male (animal)
夕【ゆう】 evening
余【よ】 over; more than / I; me
友【とも】 friend; companion; comrade; pal
油【あぶら】 oil
薬【くすり】 medicine; pharmaceuticals; (legal) drugs; pill; ointment; salve / efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.) / (pottery) glaze / small bribe
形木【かたぎ】 wooden printing block
満【まん】 full (years, etc.) / whole; all / fully enough; not lacking / Manchuria
未【ひつじ】 eighth sign of the Chinese zodiac (The Ram, 1pm-3pm, south-southwest, June)
密【みつ】 density; thickness / secrecy / minute; fine / esoteric Buddhism; secret Buddhist teachings
夢【ゆめ】 dream
枚【まい】 counter for flat objects (e.g. sheets of paper)
幕【まく】 curtain; bunting / act (in play)
歩み【あゆみ】 walking / progress; advance
暮れ【くれ】 sunset; sundown; nightfall; dusk / end; close / year-end; end of the year
母【はは】 mother
包【パオ】 yurt
国【くに】 country; state / region / national government; central government / home (i.e. hometown, home country) / province (of Japan) / land; earth
房【ふさ】 tuft; tassel / bunch (of grapes, etc.) / section (of an orange, etc.)
暴【ぼう】 violence; force
便【びん】 flight (e.g. airline flight); trip (e.g. train trip); service / mail; post; letter / opportunity; chance
弁【べん】 speech; tongue; talk; eloquence / dialect; brogue; accent / bento; Japanese box lunch / petal / valve / Oversight Department; division of the daijokan under the ritsuryo system responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices
戦【いくさ】 war; battle; campaign; fight / troops; forces
並【なみ】 average; medium; common; ordinary / mid-grade (item); regular grade / same level as; equal to; equivalent to; on par with / each (e.g. month); every / row of (teeth, houses, etc.); line of
編【へん】 compilation (of a text); editing / volume (of a text) / completed literary work
舞【まい】 dancing; dance
風【かぜ】 wind; breeze; draught; draft / manner; behaviour; behavior / cold; influenza
幅【はば】 width; breadth / freedom (e.g. of thought); latitude / gap; difference (e.g. in price); range (e.g. of voice)
服【ふく】 clothes (esp. Western clothes) / counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
複【ふく】 diplo-; double / doubles (tennis, etc.) / place betting (in horse racing, etc.)
仏【ほとけ】 Buddha; merciful person; Buddhist image / the dead; dead person; spirit of the dead
浜【はま】 beach; seashore / captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones / Yokohama / riverbank; riverside
嫁【よめ】 wife; bride / (one's) daughter-in-law
富【とみ】 riches; wealth; fortune / resources / lottery
布【ぬの】 cloth / bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
父【ちち】 father
供【とも】 companion; follower; attendant; retinue
板【いた】 board; plank / sheet (of metal); plate (of glass); pane; slab / cutting board; chopping board / chef (esp. of high-end Japanese cuisine); cook / stage (i.e. at a theatre)
版【はん】 edition; version; printing; impression; implementation (e.g. software) / plate; block; cast / editions of a publication
犯【はん】 perpetrators of (some) crime; (some type of) crime
皿【さら】 plate; dish; platter; disc / serving; helping; course / kanji radical 108 (at the bottom)
いいえ《否》 no; nay / well; er; why / you're welcome; not at all; don't mention it
あれ《彼》 that (indicating something distant from both speaker and listener (in space, time or psychologically), or something understood without naming it directly) / that person (used to refer to one's equals or inferiors) / over there / down there (i.e. one's genitals) / period; menses / hey (expression of surprise, suspicion, etc.); huh?; eh? / that (something mentioned before which is distant psychologically or in terms of time)
飛【ひ】 rook
尾【お】 tail (animal, kite, comet, etc.); tail end / slope at the foot of a mountain
印【しるし】 mark; sign / symbol; emblem / badge; crest; flag / evidence; proof / token (of gratitude, affection, etc.)
博【はく】 doctor; PhD / exposition; fair; exhibition
迫り【せり】 stage elevator; trapdoor
爆【ばく】 burst of laughter; roar of laughter
肉【にく】 flesh / meat / the physical body (as opposed to the spirit) / thickness / ink pad
熱【ねつ】 heat / fever; temperature / zeal; passion; enthusiasm / mania; craze; rage
波【なみ】 wave
破【は】 (in gagaku or noh) middle section of a song
馬【うま】 horse / horse racing / promoted bishop
敗【はい】 loss; defeat / counter for losses
背【せ】 back; spine / reverse; rear side / height; stature / ridge (of a mountain)
倍【ばい】 twice; double / times; -fold
取っ【とっ】 very; much
届【とどけ】 report; notification; registration
逆さま【さかさま】 inverted; upside down; reversed; back to front
など《等》 et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth / or something / the likes of
道【みち】 road; path; street; lane; passage / route; way / distance; journey / road (e.g. to victory); course / way (of living, proper conduct, etc.); moral principles / teachings (esp. Confucian or Buddhist); dogma / field (e.g. of medicine); subject; speciality / means; way; method
ゆめ《努》 never; by no means
無駄【むだ】 futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
庁【ちょう】 government office; agency; board
徴【ち】 fourth degree (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale)
超【ちょう】 super-; ultra-; hyper-; very; really / over (after a number or counter); more than
痛【いた】 ouch; ow; that hurt
塚【つか】 mound; heap; hillock / burial mound; tomb; tumulus; barrow
底【そこ】 bottom; sole
庭【にわ】 garden; yard; courtyard / field (of action); area
ほど《程》 degree; extent; bounds; limit / upper limit
屋敷【やしき】 residence; estate; grounds; premises; mansion
たまたま《偶々》 casually; unexpectedly; accidentally; by chance
鉄【てつ】 iron (Fe) / strong and hard (as iron) / railway / railway enthusiast
天【てん】 sky / heaven / svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth) / deva (divine being of Buddhism)
著【ちょ】 work; book / (a book) by / obvious; striking
値【ね】 price; cost / value; worth; merit
池【いけ】 pond
築【ちく】 ... years since construction; ... years old (of a building) / built in ...
竹【たけ】 bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae) / middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
仲【なか】 relation; relationship
択【たく】 counter for choices, options, etc.
脱【だつ】 de- (indicating reversal, removal, etc.); post-
谷【たに】 valley
一重【ひとえ】 one layer; single layer
短【たん】 fault; defect; weak point / minor
そば《側》 near; close; beside; vicinity; proximity; besides; while / third person
玉【たま】 ball; sphere; globe; orb / bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; droplet / ball (in sports) / pile (of noodles, etc.) / bullet / bulb (i.e. a light bulb) / lens (of glasses, etc.) / bead (of an abacus) / ball (i.e. a testicle) / gem; jewel (esp. spherical; sometimes used figuratively); pearl / female entertainer (e.g. a geisha) / person (when commenting on their nature); character / item, funds or person used as part of a plot / egg / coin / precious; beautiful; excellent
隊【たい】 party; group; crew; team; body / company (of troops); corps; unit; squad
貸し【かし】 loan; lending / favor; favour; debt; obligation / creditor; method of lending; credit side
帯【おび】 obi; kimono sash / paper wrapper on books, CDs, etc.
層【そう】 layer; seam; bed; stream; class; stratum / sheaf / storey (of a building); story; floor
草【くさ】 grass; weed; herb; thatch / ninja / not genuine; substandard / laughter; LOL
装【そう】 clothing / binding (of a book)
走【そう】 run; race
像【ぞう】 image; figure; statue; picture; portrait / figure; form; shape; appearance / image
臓【ぞう】 viscera; bowels
則【そく】 counter for rules / rule; regulation
息子【むすこ】 son / penis
束【たば】 bundle; bunch; sheaf
速【そく】 gear; speed (e.g. 4-speed transmission)
属【ぞく】 genus / generic
卒【そつ】 low-ranking soldier / graduation; outgrowing; moving on (from) / low-ranking samurai (1870-1872) / death (of a noble, etc.)
損【そん】 loss; damage; harm; unprofitable / disadvantage; handicap; drawback; unfavorable
他【ほか】 other (place, thing, person); the rest / outside; beyond / nothing except; nothing but; nothing apart from; nothing aside from; no choice (but to) / besides...; in addition to...
太【ふと】 fat; fatty / grand; magnificent; excellent
元【もと】 origin; source / base; basis; foundation; root / cause / ingredient; material / (somebody's) side; (somebody's) location / original cost (or capital, principal, etc.) / (plant) root; (tree) trunk / first section of a waka / counter for blades of grass, tree trunks, etc., and for falcons (in falconry) / handle (chopsticks, brush, etc.); grip
傷【きず】 wound; injury; cut; gash; bruise; scratch; scrape; scar / chip; crack; scratch; nick / flaw; defect; weakness; weak point / stain (on one's reputation); disgrace; dishonor; dishonour / (emotional) hurt; hurt feelings
喪【も】 mourning
柝【たく】 wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)
積【せき】 product / volume; area
籍【せき】 one's family register; one's domicile / nationality / membership (club, party, etc.)
責【せき】 responsibility; duty; obligation
赤【あか】 red; crimson; scarlet / red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange) / Red (i.e. communist) / red light (traffic) / red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red / complete; total; perfect; obvious / copper
跡【あと】 trace; tracks; mark; sign / site; remains; ruins / scar
折【おり】 opportunity; chance; occasion; time / folding; fold; pleat; crease / small food box (wooden or cardboard) / counter for folds / counter for items (esp. food) packed in an oribako
節【ふし】 joint; knuckle / tune; melody / knot (in wood); node in a bamboo stem / part; notable characteristic
卜【うら】 fortune-telling; divination
専【せん】 having a fetish for ...; specializing in ...; majoring in ... / first; foremost; number one priority / doing as one pleases; acting selfishly / fired brick
染め【そめ】 dyeing; printing
船【ふね】 ship; boat; watercraft; vessel; steamship / tank; tub; vat; trough / counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)
善【ぜん】 good; goodness; right; virtue
星【ほし】 star; any light-emitting (or reflecting) heavenly body (except for the sun and the moon) / offender; perpetrator / star point (in go); hoshi; intersection marked with a dot / circular symbol (said to be shaped like a shining star) / bullseye / one's star (out of the nine stars); the star that determines one's fate / small dot; spot / point; score
清【しん】 Qing (dynasty of China, 1616-1912); Ch'ing
盛り【もり】 serving (of food); helping / chilled soba served on a dish (often on a wicker basket or in a shallow steaming basket) with dipping sauce
精【せい】 spirit; sprite; nymph / energy; vigor (vigour); strength / fine details / semen
青【あお】 blue; azure / green / green light (traffic) / black (horse coat color) / immature; unripe; young
静【せい】 stillness / quiet; peacefulness
図【ず】 drawing; picture; diagram; figure; illustration; chart; graph / sight; scene
織り【おり】 weave; weaving; woven item
色【いろ】 colour; color; hue; tint; tinge; shade / complexion; skin colour; skin color / look (on one's face); expression / appearance; air; feeling / personality; character / tone (of one's voice, etc.); tune; sound; ring / love; lust; sensuality; love affair / lover; paramour / beauty; sexiness; physical appeal / kind; type; variety
触れ【ふれ】 proclamation; official notice / touch; contact
森【もり】 forest / shrine grove
針【はり】 needle; pin / hook / stinger; thorn / hand (e.g. clock, etc.); pointer / staple (for a stapler) / needlework; sewing / malice / counter for stitches
震【しん】 zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east)
陣【じん】 battle formation / camp; encampment; position / group; gang; party; corps / war; battle; campaign
城【しろ】 castle
順【じゅん】 order; turn / obedient; docile; submissive; meek
ところ《所》 place; spot; scene; site / address / district; area; locality / one's house / point; aspect; side; facet / passage (in text); part / space; room / thing; matter / whereupon; as a result / about to; on the verge of / was just doing; was in the process of doing; have just done; just finished doing
糸口【いとぐち】 thread end / beginning / clue
署【しょ】 station (esp. a police station); office (e.g. tax office)
諸【しょ】 various; many; several
傷【きず】 wound; injury; cut; gash; bruise; scratch; scrape; scar / chip; crack; scratch; nick / flaw; defect; weakness; weak point / stain (on one's reputation); disgrace; dishonor; dishonour / (emotional) hurt; hurt feelings
将【しょう】 commander; general; leader
承【しょう】 second line of a four-line Chinese poem
焼き【やき】 cooking, esp. frying or stir-frying; heating / tempering / -ware
省【しょう】 ministry; department / province (of China) / saving; conserving
称【しょう】 name / reputation
章【しょう】 chapter; section / medal
ｗ【わら】 LOL; haha
衝【しょう】 important point (e.g. on a route) / important role (responsibility, etc.) / opposition
縮【しゅく】 wearing armour (armor) / counter for suits of armour
春【はる】 spring; springtime / New Year / prime (of one's life, etc.) / adolescence; puberty / sexuality
週【しゅう】 week
従【じゅう】 subordinate; secondary; junior; incidental
宿【やど】 lodging; inn; hotel / house; home; dwelling / home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)
木【き】 tree; shrub; bush / wood; timber
周【しゅう】 Zhou (dynasty of China); Chou / perimeter / counter for laps or circuits
宗【しゅう】 sect
秀【しゅう】 preeminence; superlativeness
秋【あき】 autumn; fall
弱【じゃく】 little less than; fewer than; under / weakness; the weak
射【しゃ】 archery / mapping / map; morphism; arrow
言葉【ことば】 language; dialect / word; words; phrase; term; expression; remark / speech; (manner of) speaking / learning to speak; language acquisition
鹿【しか】 deer (esp. the sika deer, Cervus nippon); cervid
弓【たらし】 bow (and arrow; esp. of a noble)
室【しつ】 room / wife (of someone of high rank) / scabbard / Chinese "Encampment" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
誌【し】 magazine
似【に】 takes after (either of one's parents)
子【こ】 child / young (animal) / young woman; young geisha / offshoot / interest / new shares / player who is not a dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.) / bird egg / -er (often of young women)
寺【てら】 temple (Buddhist)
紙【かみ】 paper
至【し】 to ...
史【し】 history
侍【さむらい】 warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai / man in attendance (on a person of high standing); retainer
師【し】 teacher; master; one's mentor / religious leader / specialist / five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou-dynasty Chinese army)
志【こころざし】 will; resolution; intention; ambition; aim; goal / kindness; goodwill; kind offer / gift (as a token of gratitude)
ばら《散》 loose articles (not packaged with other things); bulk items; individual items / coins; small change
賛【さん】 praise; tribute / inscription (on a painting)
官【つかさ】 office; official / chief; head / (Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa) person (usually a woman) whose duty it is to officiate at religions ceremonies
札【さつ】 note; paper money
雑【ざつ】 rough; crude; sloppy; messy / miscellaneous
細【さい】 detail; details
載【さい】 10^44; hundred tredecillion
材【ざい】 wood; lumber; timber / man of talent / (raw) material; ingredients
罪【つみ】 crime; sin; wrongdoing; indiscretion / penalty; sentence; punishment / fault; responsibility; culpability / thoughtlessness; lack of consideration
坂【さか】 slope; hill
坂【さか】 slope; hill
岬【みさき】 cape (on coast)
崎【さき】 small peninsula
削【さく】 plane; sharpen; whittle; pare; shave (leather); scrape off; crossout; reduce; curtail
左【ひだり】 left; left hand side
座【ざ】 seat; place; position / status / gathering; group / stand; pedestal; platform / (historical) trade guild / attaches to the names of theatres, theatrical troupes, and constellations / counter for theatres, deities, Buddhist images, tall mountains, and satokagura songs
債【さい】 debt; loan
妻【つま】 wife / my dear; dear; honey / garnish (esp. one served with sashimi) / embellishment
講【こう】 (Buddhist) lecture meeting / religious association / mutual assistance association (i.e. for financial assistance)
貢【こう】 tribute
うなじ《項》 nape (of the neck); nucha
香り【かおり】 aroma; fragrance; scent; smell
号【ごう】 number; edition; make; model; issue; part of that group / sobriquet; pen-name / suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.
時【とき】 time; hour; moment / occasion; case / chance; opportunity; season / the times; the age; the day / tense
黒【くろ】 black / black go stone / guilt; guilty person
骨【ほね】 bone / frame / outline; core / backbone; spirit; fortitude / laborious; troublesome; difficult
夜這い【よばい】 creeping at night into a woman's bedroom; stealing into a girl's bedroom at night to make love; sneaking visit
根【ね】 root (of a plant) / root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.) / root (of all evil, etc.); source; origin; cause; basis / one's true nature / (fishing) reef
こもごも《交々》 alternately; in succession
江【え】 inlet; bay
いたわり《労り》 sympathy; consideration; carefulness; attention / service; labor; labour; trouble; meritorious deed / illness; disease; sickness
甲斐【かい】 effect; result; worth; use; avail
厚【あつ】 thickness
幸【さち】 good luck; fortune; happiness / harvest; yield
抗【こう】 anti-
候【こう】 season; weather
光【ひかり】 light / illumination; ray; beam; gleam; glow / happiness; hope / influence; power / vision; eyesight
雇い【やとい】 employee; employment
古【いにしえ】 antiquity; ancient times
蔵【くら】 warehouse; storehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown; depository; treasury; elevator
戸【と】 door (esp. Japanese-style) / shutter; window shutter / entrance (to a home) / narrows
元【もと】 former; ex-; past; one-time
系【けい】 system; lineage; group / corollary / system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period) / (taxonomical) series
軽【けい】 light (e.g. vehicle, aircraft, etc.)
芸【げい】 art; craft; accomplishment; artistic skill; technique; performance
劇【げき】 drama; play / powerful drug
激【げき】 extremely ...
あくび《欠伸》 yawn; yawning / kanji "yawning" radical (radical 76)
血【ち】 blood; consanguinity
券【けん】 ticket; coupon; bond; certificate
掛け【かけ】 credit / money owed on an account; bill / hot noodles in broth / proportion (of wholesale price, as tenths of list price) / in the midst of / rest; rack; hanger
険【けん】 steepness; steep place / harsh (look); sharp (tongue)
厳【げん】 strict; stern
源【みなもと】 source (of a river); fountainhead / source; origin; root
恵【え】 wisdom; enlightenment / prajñā (one of the three divisions of the noble eightfold path); wisdom
筋【すじ】 muscle; tendon; sinew / vein; artery / fiber; fibre; string / line; stripe; streak / reason; logic / plot; storyline / lineage; descent / school (e.g. of scholarship or arts) / aptitude; talent / source (of information, etc.); circle; channel / well-informed person (in a transaction) / logical move (in go, shogi, etc.) / ninth vertical line / seam on a helmet / gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.) / social position; status / on (a river, road, etc.); along / counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions / (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency)
苦【く】 pain; anguish; suffering; distress; anxiety; worry; trouble; difficulty; hardship / duhkha (suffering)
妻【つま】 wife / my dear; dear; honey / garnish (esp. one served with sashimi) / embellishment
君【きみ】 you; buddy; pal / monarch; ruler; sovereign; (one's) master
郡【ぐん】 district; county / district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryo period)
斜め【ななめ】 slanting; tilted; sloping; diagonal; oblique / distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood); amiss; awry
刑【けい】 penalty; sentence; punishment
橋【はし】 bridge
興【きょう】 interest; entertainment; pleasure / implicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing)
響き【ひびき】 echo; reverberation / sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise / quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound; emotion or feeling inspired by something heard or read
曲【きょく】 composition; piece of music; song; track (on a record) / tune; melody; air / enjoyment; fun; interest; pleasure
玉【たま】 ball; sphere; globe; orb / bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; droplet / ball (in sports) / pile (of noodles, etc.) / bullet / bulb (i.e. a light bulb) / lens (of glasses, etc.) / bead (of an abacus) / ball (i.e. a testicle) / gem; jewel (esp. spherical; sometimes used figuratively); pearl / female entertainer (e.g. a geisha) / person (when commenting on their nature); character / item, funds or person used as part of a plot / egg / coin / precious; beautiful; excellent
禁【きん】 ban (e.g. on smoking); prohibition
こわ《怖》 frightening; terrifying
よりどころ《拠り所》 grounds; foundation; authority / support; prop; something upon which to rely
下【もと】 under (esp. influence or guidance)
競【くら】 contest; match
居【きょ】 residence
旧【きゅう】 ex-; former; old
給【きゅう】 wage; recompense
季【き】 season / seasonal word or phrase (in haiku) / year
紀【き】 period / Nihon-shoki
尊【とうと】 value; preciousness; nobility
儀【ぎ】 ceremony / matter; affair / with regard to; as for; as concerns
吉【きち】 good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness
客【きゃく】 guest; visitor / customer; client; shopper; spectator; audience; tourist; sightseer; passenger
逆【ぎゃく】 reverse; opposite / converse (of a hypothesis, etc.) / inverse (function)
級【きゅう】 class (e.g. school); grade; rank / kyū; kyu; junior rank in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.
まれ《稀》 rare; seldom
器【うつわ】 bowl; vessel; container / ability; capacity; calibre; caliber
館【やかた】 mansion; palace; manor house; castle / nobleman; noblewoman; dignitary / cabin (on a boat, carriage, etc.)
丸【まる】 circle / entirety; whole; full; complete / money; dough; moola / enclosure inside a castle's walls / soft-shelled turtle / suffix for ship names; suffix for names of people (esp. infants); suffix for names of swords, armour, musical instruments, etc.; suffix for names of dogs, horses, etc.
岸【きし】 bank; coast; shore
岩【いわ】 rock; boulder / crag; cliff / anchor
顔【かお】 face; visage / look; expression; countenance / honor; honour; face / influence; notoriety
願【がん】 prayer; wish; vow
危【き】 danger / Chinese "rooftop" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
管【かん】 pipe; tube
札【ふだ】 ticket; token; check; receipt / label; tag / sign; card; plate / playing card / charm; talisman / slip of paper posted on shrine pillars by pilgrims
刊【かん】 publication; edition (e.g. morning, evening, special); published in (year); publication frequency (e.g. daily, monthly)
巻【まき】 roll (e.g. of cloth) / winding / volume (of book)
完【かん】 The End; Finis / completion; conclusion; end / providing fully
絵【え】 picture; drawing; painting; sketch
品【しな】 article; item; thing; goods; stock / quality / flirtatiousness; coquetry
町【まち】 town; block; neighbourhood; neighborhood / street; road / 109.09 m / 0.99 hectares / downtown; main street
さとり《覚》 Satori; folklore monster that can read minds
角【かど】 corner (e.g. desk, pavement) / edge
右【みぎ】 right; right hand side / afore-mentioned (esp. in vertical Japanese writing); foregoing; forgoing; above
軒【のき】 eaves / narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building
羽【はね】 feather; plume; down / wing / blade (of a fan, propeller, etc.) / shuttlecock / arrow feathers
雨【あめ】 rain
浦【うら】 inlet / seashore; beach
ロン《栄》 winning by picking up a discarded tile
永久【えいきゅう】 eternity; permanence; perpetuity / Eikyū era (1113.7.13-1118.4.3)
ますます《益々》 increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
駅【えき】 railway station; train station / staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan)
越【えつ】 Yue; kingdom in ancient China (6th c. - 334 BCE)
園【その】 garden (esp. man-made); orchard; park; plantation / place; location
遠【とお】 distant
よごれ《汚》 oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus)
央【おう】 middle; centre; center
王【おう】 king; ruler; sovereign; monarch / tycoon; magnate; champion; master / king (of the senior player)
沖【おき】 open sea
億【おく】 10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
屋【や】 (something) shop / somebody who sells (something) or works as (something) / somebody with a (certain) personality trait / house / roof
温【ぬく】 idiot; dummy; slow person
夏【なつ】 summer
品【しな】 article; item; thing; goods; stock / quality / flirtatiousness; coquetry
歌【うた】 song / classical Japanese poetry (esp. tanka) / modern poetry
川【かわ】 river; stream / River; the ... river
火【ひ】 fire; flame; blaze
花【はな】 flower; blossom; bloom; petal / cherry blossom / beauty / blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms) / ikebana / hanafuda / (the) best / glorious; lovely
宝【たから】 treasure
我が【わが】 my; our; one's own
愛【あい】 love; affection; care / attachment; craving; desire
悪【あく】 evil; wickedness
圧【あつ】 pressure; force
伊【い】 Italy
易【えき】 divination; fortune-telling
ため《為》 good; advantage; benefit; welfare / sake; purpose; objective; aim / consequence; result; effect / affecting; regarding; concerning
異【い】 difference (of opinion) / strange; odd; unusual / different
これ《此れ》 this (indicating an item near the speaker, the action of the speaker, or the current topic) / this person (usu. indicating someone in one's in-group) / now / here / I (me) / certainly
印【しるし】 mark; sign / symbol; emblem / badge; crest; flag / evidence; proof / token (of gratitude, affection, etc.)
由【よし】 reason; significance; cause / piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...
飲【いん】 drinking (sometimes esp. alcohol); drink; drinking party