Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N3

571 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 8

Meaning: easy, ready to, simple, fortune-telling, divination

Kunyomi: やさ.しい やす.い

Onyomi: エキ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading:

Meaning: sun, day

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

者(えきしゃ)   fortuneteller

貿(ぼうえき)   trade [n.]

な(よういな)   easy

な(あんいな)   easy-going

度(なんいど)   degree of difficulty

しい(やさしい)   easy

壊れい(こわれやすい)   fragile

Onyomi Examples

エキ type of cleromancy divination (described in the Book of Changes) performed with long sticks, The Book of Changes, Yijing, I Ching

エキガク study of divination

カイエキ change of rank

加工交 カコウコウエキ processing trade (importing all or part of raw and auxiliary materials, parts, components, accessories, and packaging materials in bond from a foreign company, and re-exporting the finished products after processing or assembly for distribution and sale by that foreign company)

easiness

イイ easy, simple, plain

カンイ simplicity, convenience, easiness, quasi-

ナンイ difficulty, relative difficulty

Kunyomi Examples

しい やさしい easy, plain, simple

やさしい文章 やさしいぶんしょう easy (simple) writing

やすい easy, likely to ..., have a tendency to ..., easy to ...