Kanji

Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names

JLPT level: N1

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Stroke count: 7

Meaning: woods, grove

Kunyomi: もり ふさ.ぐ やまなし

Onyomi: トウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: tree

Examples

Onyomi Examples

トゼツ stoppage, interruption, cessation, suspension

時鳥 ホトトギス lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

時鳥 ホトトギス lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

トウジ chief brewer at a sake brewery

ズサン careless, sloppy, faulty, using unreliable sources (in a piece of writing), piece of writing with unreliable sources or many errors

撰脱漏 ズサンダツロウ careless (slipshod) and with many omissions

Kunyomi Examples

もり forest, shrine grove

の都 もりのみやこ Capital of Trees (nickname for Sendai City)

鎮守の ちんじゅのもり grove of the village shrine