Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N1

612 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 9

Meaning: happenstance, especially, intentionally, reason, cause, circumstances, the late, therefore, consequently

Kunyomi: ゆえ ふる.い もと

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: ぼくづくり

Meaning: rap

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

郷(こきょう)   home town

国(ここく)   one's native land

人(こじん)   the deceased

田中氏(こたなかし)   the late Mr. Tanaka

(じこ)   accident

意に(こいに)   purposefully

障する(こしょうする)   break down, malfunction [v.i.]

(ゆえ)   reason [n.]

Onyomi Examples

the late, the deceased

殊更 コトサラ intentionally, deliberately, designedly, on purpose, especially, particularly

ブッコ death (of a person)

人身事 ジンシンジコ accident resulting in personal injury or death (esp. traffic, rail, etc.)

Kunyomi Examples

ゆえ reason, cause, circumstances

ゆえに therefore, consequently

古い ふるい old, aged, ancient, antiquated, antique, timeworn, long, since long ago, time-honored, of the distant past, long-ago, stale, threadbare, hackneyed, corny, old-fashioned, outmoded, out-of-date

もと former, ex-, past, one-time, earlier times, the past, previous state, formerly, previously, originally, before