Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 1

JLPT level: N5

72 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 3

Meaning: child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac

Kunyomi: -こ

Onyomi:

Radical

Radical:

Reading:

Meaning: child, seed

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

(ぼうし)   hat, cap

レンジ(でんしレンジ)   microwave oven

調(ちょうし)   pitch, mood, condition

屋(かしや)   candy shop

遺伝(いでんし)   gene

(ようし)   adopted child

(りし)   interest (bank)

(いす)   chair

(ようす)   appearance

供(こども)   child

(むすこ)   son

(まいご)   lost child

Onyomi Examples

child (esp. a boy), viscount, founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius), master, masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature), you, -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)

シキュウ womb, uterus

中性 チュウセイシ neutron

セイシ sperm

honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name

恵比寿 エビス Ebisu, god of fishing and commerce

久留 クルス cross sign

トイツ pair, eyes

七対 チートイツ seven pairs, winning hand composed of seven pairs

Kunyomi Examples

child, kid, teenager, youngster, young (non-adult) person, (one's) child, offspring, young woman, young (animal), offshoot, interest, new share, player who is not a dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.), young geisha, young prostitute, bird egg, -er (often of young women)

こう child, interest

根っこ ねっこ root (of a plant), stump (of a tree), root (of a problem, etc.), base, foundation, origin, source

江戸っ えどっこ true Tokyoite, Edoite, person born and raised in Edo

the Rat (first sign of the Chinese zodiac), hour of the Rat (around midnight, 11pm to 1am, or 12 midnight to 2am), north, eleventh month of the lunar calendar

忌み ねいみ collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the Rat of the New Year)

かのえね Metal Rat (37th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1960, 2020, 2080)

きのえね Wood Rat (1st term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)