Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N3

701 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: inn, lodging, relay station, dwell, lodge, be pregnant, home, dwelling

Kunyomi: やど やど.る やど.す

Onyomi: シュク

Composition:

宿

Radical

Radical:

Reading: うかんむり

Meaning: roof

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

宿題(しゅくだい)   homework

宿(がっしゅく)   training camp

宿(げしゅく)   boarding house

宿泊する(しゅくはくする)   stay overnight (e.g. hotel)

宿屋(やどや)   inn

宿る(やどる)   dwell [v.i.]

宿す(やどす)   conceive (e.g. baby) [v.t.]

宿り(あまやどり)   to take shelter from rain [n.]

Onyomi Examples

宿 シュク lodging, relay station, post town, constellation, mansion (in Chinese astronomy)

シュク outcasts common around the Kyoto region from the Kamakura period to the Edo period

宿 キシュク lodging, boarding, room and board, board and lodging, boarding house, residence hall, dormitory

宿 トカキボシ Chinese "Legs" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

Kunyomi Examples

宿 やど lodging, inn, hotel, house, home, dwelling, home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)

宿 やどや inn

連れ込み宿 つれこみやど hotel catering for lovers, hotel that rents rooms by the hour

宿 あいやど staying in the same inn or hotel, rooming together

宿 やどる to dwell, to live, to remain, to stay at, to take shelter at, to stop at, to lodge at, to be pregnant, to be part of a constellation, to be a parasite (bugs, plants, etc.)

宿 やどす to house, to contain, to harbour (a feeling), to hold (e.g. dew on leaves), to carry (a baby), to be pregnant, to give lodging to, to accommodate