Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N4

4 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 6

Meaning: meeting, meet, party, association, interview, join

Kunyomi: あ.う あ.わせる あつ.まる

Onyomi: カイ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: ひとやね

Meaning: man, human

Strokes: 2

Examples

Examples with audio

話(かいわ)   conversation

議(かいぎ)   conference

社(かいしゃ)   company

社員(かいしゃいん)   company employee

計士(かいけいし)   accountant

忘年(ぼうねんかい)   year-end party

(こっかい)   parliament

(とかい)   city

する(さいかいする)   meet again

釈する(えしゃくする)   nod in greeting

う(あう)   meet

Onyomi Examples

カイ meeting, assembly, party, gathering, conference, athletic meet, society, association, club

カイイン member, the membership

レイカイ regular meeting

サイカイ meeting, facing, confronting

gathering (esp. Buddhist, festive, etc.)

エシャク slight bow (as a greeting or sign of gratitude), nod, salutation, consideration, thoughtfulness

ホウエ Buddhist service (e.g. memorial service)

御斎 ゴサイエ imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods)

Kunyomi Examples

あう to meet, to encounter, to see, to have an accident, to have a bad experience

逢うは別れの始め あうはわかれのはじめ we meet only to part, meeting is the first step to parting

わせる あわせる to make (someone) to meet, to let (someone) meet, to expose to, to subject to