Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3
JLPT level: N3
457 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke count: 6
Meaning: guard, protect, defend, obey
Kunyomi: まも.る まも.り もり -もり かみ
Onyomi: シュ ス
Composition: 宀 寸
Radical: 宀
Reading: うかんむり
Meaning: roof
Strokes: 3
守備(しゅび) defense
守衛(しゅえい) security guard
死守する(ししゅする) defend to the last
厳守する(げんしゅする) observe (a rule) strictly
保守的な(ほしゅてきな) conservative
留守(るす) being away from home
留守番(るすばん) house-watching
留守番電話(るすばんでんわ) answering machine
守る(まもる) protect, obey
お守り(おまもり) amulet
子守歌(こもりうた) lullaby
守備 (シュビ) defense, defence
守勢 (シュセイ) (being on the) defensive
好守 (コウシュ) good fielding
攻守 (コウシュ) offense and defense, offence and defence, batting and fielding
守護 (シュゴ) protection, safeguard, shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
居留守 (イルス) pretending to be out
神の留守 (カミノルス) absence of the gods from their shrines in October (while they are visiting the Grand Shrine of Izumo)
守る (まもる) to protect, to guard, to defend, to keep (i.e. a promise), to abide (by the rules), to observe, to obey, to follow
守り (まもり) protection, defense, defence, providence, amulet, charm, talisman
守り神 (まもりがみ) guardian deity
島主 (とうしゅ) island chief
山守 (やまもり) ranger (forest), mountain guardian
守り (もり) babysitting, babysitter, protecting, keeping, keeper
守り立てる (もりたてる) to support, to back up, to rally round, to revive (e.g. a company), to boost (e.g. morale), to bring up, to raise
井守 (いもり) newt (esp. the Japanese fire belly newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster)
足無井守 (あしなしいもり) caecilian (any burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona)
守 (かみ) director (of the provincial governors under the ritsuryō system)
肥後守 (ひごのかみ) higonokami, type of folding knife with metal handle
薩摩の守 (さつまのかみ) traveling while deliberately not paying a fare (travelling)
Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3
JLPT level: N3
457 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke count: 6
Meaning: guard, protect, defend, obey
Kunyomi: まも.る まも.り もり -もり かみ
Onyomi: シュ ス
Composition: 宀 寸
Radical: 宀
Reading: うかんむり
Meaning: roof
Strokes: 3
守備(しゅび) defense
守衛(しゅえい) security guard
死守する(ししゅする) defend to the last
厳守する(げんしゅする) observe (a rule) strictly
保守的な(ほしゅてきな) conservative
留守(るす) being away from home
留守番(るすばん) house-watching
留守番電話(るすばんでんわ) answering machine
守る(まもる) protect, obey
お守り(おまもり) amulet
子守歌(こもりうた) lullaby
守備 (シュビ) defense, defence
守勢 (シュセイ) (being on the) defensive
好守 (コウシュ) good fielding
攻守 (コウシュ) offense and defense, offence and defence, batting and fielding
守護 (シュゴ) protection, safeguard, shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
居留守 (イルス) pretending to be out
神の留守 (カミノルス) absence of the gods from their shrines in October (while they are visiting the Grand Shrine of Izumo)
守る (まもる) to protect, to guard, to defend, to keep (i.e. a promise), to abide (by the rules), to observe, to obey, to follow
守り (まもり) protection, defense, defence, providence, amulet, charm, talisman
守り神 (まもりがみ) guardian deity
島主 (とうしゅ) island chief
山守 (やまもり) ranger (forest), mountain guardian
守り (もり) babysitting, babysitter, protecting, keeping, keeper
守り立てる (もりたてる) to support, to back up, to rally round, to revive (e.g. a company), to boost (e.g. morale), to bring up, to raise
井守 (いもり) newt (esp. the Japanese fire belly newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster)
足無井守 (あしなしいもり) caecilian (any burrowing legless amphibian of the order Gymnophiona)
守 (かみ) director (of the provincial governors under the ritsuryō system)
肥後守 (ひごのかみ) higonokami, type of folding knife with metal handle
薩摩の守 (さつまのかみ) traveling while deliberately not paying a fare (travelling)