Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 4

JLPT level: N3

860 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 4

Meaning: lack, gap, fail, yawning radical (no. 76)

Kunyomi: か.ける か.く

Onyomi: ケツ ケン

Radical

Radical:

Reading: あくび

Meaning: lack, yawn

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

員(けついん)   vacancy, vacant position

点(けってん)   faults, defect, weakness

陥(けっかん)   defect, fault, deficiency

(しゅっけつ)   presence or absence

(ほけつ)   substitute, spare, alternate

不可な(ふかけつな)   indispensable, essential

席する(けっせきする)   be absent, not attend

乏する(けつぼうする)   be short of, lack, want

如する(けつじょする)   be short of, lack, want

ける(かける)   be lacking, be chipped [v.i.]

く(かく)   be short of, lack, neglect [v.t.]

かせない(かかせない)   indispensable

Onyomi Examples

ケツ lack, deficiency, vacancy, absence, non-attendance

ケツイン vacancy, vacant position

ホケツ filling a vacancy, supplementation, substitute, deputy, alternate, spare

シュッケツ attendance or absence

アクビ yawn, yawning, kanji "yawning" radical (radical 76)

ケンケツ lacuna, gap where something is lacked

Kunyomi Examples

ける かける to chip, to be chipped, to break (off), to be damaged, to be missing (from a set, team, etc.), to be absent, to become lost, to be lacking (in), to be short (of), to be deficient, to be wanting (in), to wane (of the moon), to go into eclipse

かく to chip, to nick, to break, to crack, to lack

くことができない かくことができない indispensable, essential, necessary