Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N4

554 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 8

Meaning: walk, counter for steps

Kunyomi: ある.く あゆ.む

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: とめる

Meaning: stop

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

道(ほどう)   sidewalk

調(ほちょう)   pace (walking)

行者(ほこうしゃ)   pedestrian

(とほ)   on foot [n.]

(しょほ)   elementary

する(さんぽする)   take a walk

する(しんぽする)   make progress

合(ぶあい)   rate

(ふ)   pawn (in chess or shogi)

く(あるく)   walk

む(あゆむ)   walk

Onyomi Examples

step, stride, counter for steps

ホコウ walk

ユウホ walk, promenade

ギュウホ snail's pace, slow progress

bu, traditional unit of area, approx. 3.31 square metres, commission, percentage, exactly, precisely

ブアイ rate, ratio, percentage, commission, poundage, percentage

チョウブ hectare (2.471 acres)

町段畝 チョウタンセブ units of square measure (for rice fields, forests, etc.)

pawn

フヒョウ pawn

テキフ opponents pawn

Kunyomi Examples

あるく to walk

あゆむ to walk, to go on foot, to tread (a figurative path), to follow, to lead (a life), to experience, to advance towards (e.g. a solution), to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.), to embark (on the road to ...)