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The Kanji Map

Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N4

659 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 10

Meaning: summer

Kunyomi: なつ

Onyomi: カ, ガ, ゲ

Composition: 自 夂 一

夏

Radical

Radical: 夊

Reading: なつあし

Meaning: go slowly

Strokes: 3

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Examples

Examples with audio

夏期講座(かきこうざ)   course in summer term

初夏(しょか)   early summer

夏至(げし)   summer solstice

夏(なつ)   summer

真夏(まなつ)   midsummer

常夏(とこなつ)   everlasting summer

Onyomi Examples

夏 (カ) Xia dynasty (of China; ca. 2070-1600 BCE; possibly mythological), Hsia dynasty

夏季 (カキ) summer season, summer, summertime

初夏 (ショカ) early summer, fourth month of the lunar calendar

盛夏 (セイカ) midsummer, height of summer

夏 (ゲ) summer (on the lunisolar calendar: 16th day of the 4th month to the 15th day of the 7th month)

夏至 (ゲシ) summer solstice

一夏 (イチゲ) one summer (during which a monk attends a summer retreat)

半夏 (ハンゲ) crow dipper (Pinellia tuber), 11th day after the summer solstice, last seed-sowing and rice-planting day

Kunyomi Examples

夏 (なつ) summer

夏季 (かき) summer season, summer, summertime

初夏 (しょか) early summer, fourth month of the lunar calendar

常夏 (とこなつ) everlasting summer

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