Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N4

299 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 3

Meaning: craft, construction, katakana e radical (no. 48)

Kunyomi:

Onyomi: コウ

Radical

Radical:

Reading: たくみ

Meaning: work

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

事(こうじ)   construction work

場(こうじょう)   factory

学部(こうがくぶ)   engineering department

的な(じんこうてきな)   artificial

する(かこうする)   process [v.t.]

(だいく)   carpenter

する(さいくする)   craft

夫する(くふうする)   devise

面する(くめんする)   raise (money)

Onyomi Examples

コウ (factory) worker

コウイン factory worker

キコウ setting to work

ショウコウ commerce and industry

クフウ devising (a way), contriving, figuring out, coming up with, working out, inventing, device, design, idea, plan, invention, dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)

クメン contrivance, managing (to raise money), one's financial condition

竹細 タケザイク bamboo work, bamboo ware

寄せ木細 ヨセギザイク wooden mosaic work, parquetry, wooden mosaic (e.g. on a piece of furniture), marquetry, marqueterie

具合 グアイ condition, state, health, state (of health), way, manner, circumstance, luck, face, dignity, decency, propriety

クメン contrivance, managing (to raise money), one's financial condition