Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N4

132 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 9

Meaning: think

Kunyomi: おも.う おもえら.く おぼ.す

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: こころ

Meaning: heart

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

考する(しこうする)   think

(いし)   intention

想(しそう)   thought, ideas

議な(ふしぎな)   strange, mysterious

う(おもう)   feel, think

い出す(おもいだす)   recall

い出(おもいで)   memories

Onyomi Examples

春期 シシュンキ puberty, adolescence

シコウ thought, consideration, thinking

ソウシ mutual affection, mutual love

アイシ sad feeling

Kunyomi Examples

おもう to think, to consider, to believe, to reckon, to think (of doing), to plan (to do), to judge, to assess, to regard, to imagine, to suppose, to dream, to expect, to look forward to, to feel, to be (in a state of mind), to desire, to want, to recall, to remember

う存分 おもうぞんぶん to one's heart's content, to one's complete satisfaction, as much as one likes, heartily, thoroughly, without restraint