Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N3

117 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 12

Meaning: period, time, date, term

Kunyomi:

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: つき

Meaning: moon, month

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

間(きかん)   period

限(きげん)   time limit, deadline

(しょき)   early (e.g. stage)

(まんき)   maturity (e.g. investment)

秋学(あきがっき)   fall semester

末試験(がっきまつしけん)   final exam

的な(かっきてきな)   epoch-making

待する(きたいする)   hope

する(よきする)   expect

一会(いちごいちえ)   one chance in a lifetime

Onyomi Examples

period, time, opportunity, chance, occasion, age, term (e.g. in office), session (e.g. of parliament), stage (e.g. of a disease), season (e.g. of a TV series)

キカン period, term, interval

シュウキ cycle, period

トウキ current term (period)

time, moment, limit, time of death, last moment, midnight in red-light districts during the Edo period

キジツ fixed date, settlement date

イチゴ one's whole life, one's lifetime

非業の最 ヒゴウノサイゴ unnatural death, violent death