Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N4

440 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 5

Meaning: gone, past, quit, leave, elapse, eliminate, divorce

Kunyomi: さ.る -さ.る

Onyomi: キョ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading:

Meaning: private

Strokes: 2

Examples

Examples with audio

年(きょねん)   last year

来する(きょらいする)   come and go

退する(たいきょする)   depart, leave

する(しきょする)   pass away, die

(かこ)   the past

る(さる)   leave, go away

Onyomi Examples

キョネン last year

キョシュウ leaving or staying, (one's) course of action, (one's) position, (one's) attitude

ショウキョ elimination, erasure, clearing, dissipating, melting away, elimination (of variables)

国外退 コクガイタイキョ deportation

キョネン last year

大過 ダイカコ past perfect tense, pluperfect

不定過 フテイカコ aorist tense (in Greek), past-perfective tense

Kunyomi Examples

さる to leave, to go away, to pass, to elapse, to be distant, to send away, to drive off, to divorce, to (do) completely, last ... (e.g. "last April")

る者追わず さるものおわず do not chase the one who leaves