Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N2

575 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 4

Meaning: door, counter for houses, door radical (no. 63)

Kunyomi:

Onyomi:

Radical

Radical:

Reading:

Meaning: door, house

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

籍(こせき)   census, family register

主(こしゅ)   head of a household

外(こがい)   open-air, outdoors

(もんこ)   gate and door

(と)   door

棚(とだな)   cupboard

(あまど)   sliding storm door

(いど)   water well

ガラス(ガラスど)   glass door

Onyomi Examples

counter for houses, households, apartments, etc.

コガイ open air, outdoors, outside

イッコ one house, household

ゲコ non-drinker, someone who cannot drink

Kunyomi Examples

door (esp. Japanese-style), shutter, window shutter, entrance (to a home), narrows

惑い とまどい being at sea, losing one's bearings, confusion, wonderment, disorientation upon waking at night, forgetting which house or room to enter

鳴門 なると strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow, whirlpool, maelstrom, kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern, cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern, Naruto (city in Tokushima), Naruto Strait, Naruto wakame

引き ひきど sliding door