Kanji

Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names

JLPT level: N1

1404 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 3

Meaning: to be (classical)

Kunyomi: なり また

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: second

Examples

Onyomi Examples

や行 ヤギョウ the "ya" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ya, yu, yo)

Kunyomi Examples

なり to be, to be (location), sum of money

弱き者よ汝の名は女なり よわきものよなんじのなはおんななり frailty, thy name is woman

知らぬは亭主ばかりなり しらぬはていしゅばかりなり the husband is always the last to know, everyone knows of the wife's infidelity but the cuckolded husband