Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N2

620 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 10

Meaning: root, radical, head (pimple)

Kunyomi: -ね

Onyomi: コン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: きへん

Meaning: tree

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

拠(こんきょ)   basis

性(こんじょう)   will-power, guts

気(こんき)   patience

本的な(こんぽんてきな)   fundamental

(だいこん)   Japanese white radish

(きゅうこん)   (plant) bulb

(ね)   root

元(ねもと)   root, base

回し(ねまわし)   groundwork, preparatory work

強い(ねづよい)   firmly rooted

(やね)   roof

Onyomi Examples

コン stick-to-itiveness, perseverance, persistence, radical (esp. one that tends to ionize easily), root, indriya (faculty of the body having a specific function, i.e. the sensory organs)

コンカン foundation, root, basis, core, fundamentals, root and trunk

事実無 ジジツムコン groundless, entirely contrary to fact

キュウコン (plant) bulb

Kunyomi Examples

root (of a plant), root (of a tooth, hair, etc.), center (of a pimple, etc.), root (of all evil, etc.), source, origin, cause, basis, one's true nature, (fishing) reef

ざす ねざす to come from, to have roots in

しまね Shimane (prefecture), island country

おね (mountain) ridge