Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N4

133 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 10

Meaning: house, home, family, professional, expert, performer

Kunyomi: いえ うち

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: うかんむり

Meaning: roof

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

族(かぞく)   family

内(かない)   wife

具(かぐ)   furniture

作曲(さっきょくか)   composer

(さっか)   writer, artist

徳川(とくがわけ)   the House of Tokugawa

(いえ)   house

出する(いえでする)   run away from home

賃(やちん)   rent

一軒(いっけんや)   free standing home

(おおや)   landlord

*(うち)   house, family

Onyomi Examples

-ist, -er

カオク house, building

研究 ケンキュウカ researcher, student (of)

活動 カツドウカ activist

house (e.g. of Tokugawa), family

ケライ retainer, retinue, servant

ホンケ head house (family), birthplace, originator

クゲ court noble, nobility, kuge, Imperial Court

Kunyomi Examples

いえ house, residence, dwelling, family, household, lineage, family name

やぬし landlord, landlady, house owner, home owner, head of the household

ほんけ head house (family), birthplace, originator

こいえ small and simple home

shop, store, restaurant, someone who sells (something) or works as (something), someone with a (certain) personality trait, house, roof

かない (my) wife, inside the home, one's family

長屋 ながや tenement house, row house

ほんけ head house (family), birthplace, originator

うち house, one's house, one's home, one's family, one's household

うちじゅう whole family, entire family, all (members of) the family, all over the house, throughout the house, retainer of a daimyo, feudal domain, clan