Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 4

JLPT level: N2

867 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 8

Meaning: bottom, sole, depth, bottom price, base, kind, sort

Kunyomi: そこ

Onyomi: テイ

Composition: 广

Radical

Radical: 广

Reading: まだれ

Meaning: house on cliff

Strokes: 3

广

Examples

Examples with audio

流(ていりゅう)   undercurrent

辺(ていへん)   base, bottom

(かいてい)   bottom of the ocean

(こんてい)   root, basis, foundation

(きてい)   base, ground [n.]

的に(てっていてきに)   thoroughly, completely

(そこ)   bottom, sole

値(そこね)   bottom price

(かわぞこ)   riverbed

(くつぞこ)   shoe sole

どん(どんぞこ)   very bottom

Onyomi Examples

テイ base (logarithmic, exponential, number system), radix, base (triangle, cone, cylinder, etc.), type, kind, extent, degree

テイヘン base (e.g. of a triangle), low class, low in social standing, low level, of poor reputation, base (e.g. of support), foundation, basis

オクソコ depths, deep place, bottom (of one's heart)

スイテイ sea or river bottom

Kunyomi Examples

そこ bottom, sole

入れ そこいれ bottoming out (of prices)

すいてい sea or river bottom

おくそこ depths, deep place, bottom (of one's heart)