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The Kanji Map

Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 4

JLPT level: N1

841 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 8

Meaning: Nara, what?

Kunyomi: いかん, からなし

Onyomi: ナ, ナイ, ダイ

Composition: 大 示

奈

Radical

Radical: 大

Meaning: big, very

Reading: だい

Frequency: 132

大

Examples

Onyomi Examples

奈良 (ナラ) Nara (city, prefecture)

な行 (ナギョウ) the "na" column of the Japanese syllabary table (na, ni, nu, ne, no)

眼仁奈 (メジナ) largescale blackfish (Girella punctata)

輪奈 (ワナ) loop (of thread, string, etc.)

Kunyomi Examples

如何 (いかん) (depending on) how, (depending on) what, nature (of), what is ...?, how is ...?, what will be ...?

唐梨 (からなし) Chinese quince (Pseudocydonia sinensis)

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