Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N3

493 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 14

Meaning: Esq., way, manner, situation, polite suffix

Kunyomi: さま さん

Onyomi: ヨウ ショウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: きへん

Meaning: tree

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

式(ようしき)   style

子(ようす)   appearance

(もよう)   pattern

な(いような)   bizarre

に(どうように)   similarly

(かみさま)   god

(おくさま)   wife [hon.]

お客(おきゃくさま)   guest [hon.]

ご苦労(ごくろうさま)   Thank you for your trouble

お陰で(おかげさまで)   Thank you for asking

Onyomi Examples

ヨウ appearing ..., looking ..., way to ..., method of ...ing, form, style, design, like, similar to, thing (thought or spoken)

ヨウシキ style, form, pattern

モンヨウ pattern, design

イチヨウ uniform, equal, even, the same, identical, common, ordinary, usual

Kunyomi Examples

さま Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions), state, situation, appearance, manner

変わり さまがわり changing completely, transformation

殿 とのさま nobleman, dignitary, lord, feudal lord (of the Edo period), daimyō, man brought up away from the world, arrogant man with little knowledge of the ways of the world

ご馳走 ごちそうさま thank you (for the meal), that was a delicious meal, thank you (for displaying lovey-dovey behaviour)

唐行きさん からゆきさん karayuki-san, young Japanese women who were sent to work (mainly as prostitutes) in foreign countries, esp. in Southeast Asia (Meiji to early Showa)

いとさん daughter (of a good family)