Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N3

172 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 10

Meaning: meadow, original, primitive, field, plain, prairie, tundra, wilderness

Kunyomi: はら

Onyomi: ゲン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: がんだれ

Meaning: cliff

Strokes: 2

Examples

Examples with audio

稿(げんこう)   manuscript

因(げんいん)   cause, origin

則(げんそく)   principle

点(げんてん)   starting point

爆(げんばく)   atomic bomb

告(げんこく)   plaintiff

(こうげん)   plateau

始的な(げんしてきな)   primitive

(のはら)   field

Onyomi Examples

ゲン original, primitive, primary, fundamental, raw

ゲンアン original plan, original bill, original motion, draft

チュウゲン middle of a field, middle of a country, field of contest

コウゲン antigen

Kunyomi Examples

はら field, plain, prairie, tundra, moor, wilderness

っぱ はらっぱ open field, empty lot, plain

はぎはら reedy field

ささはら field of bamboo grass