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:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: なつあし

Meaning: go slowly

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

期講座(かきこうざ)   course in summer term

(しょか)   early summer

至(げし)   summer solstice

(なつ)   summer

(まなつ)   midsummer

(とこなつ)   everlasting summer

Onyomi Examples

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

カキ summer season

ショカ early summer, fourth month of the lunar calendar

セイカ midsummer, height of summer

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

ゲシ summer solstice

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

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

Kunyomi Examples

なつ summer

かき summer season

しょか early summer, fourth month of the lunar calendar

とこなつ everlasting summer