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The Kanji Map

Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

2162 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 16

Meaning: Confucian

Kunyomi:

Onyomi: ジュ

Composition: 亻 需

儒

Radical

Radical: 人

Meaning: man, human

Reading: ひと

Frequency: 794

Alternative forms:

亻(alt radical position hen)𠆢(alt radical position kanmuri)

人

Examples

Onyomi Examples

儒 (ジュ) Confucianism, Confucianist, Chinese scholar

儒教 (ジュキョウ) Confucianism

大儒 (タイジュ) great Confucian (scholar), great scholar, person of great erudition

坑儒 (コウジュ) burying Confucian scholars alive

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