Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N3

171 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 9

Meaning: lively, resuscitation, being helped, living

Kunyomi: い.きる い.かす い.ける

Onyomi: カツ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: さんずい

Meaning: water

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

気(かっき)   liveliness

字(かつじ)   moveable type

火山(かっかざん)   active volcano

発な(かっぱつな)   active

動する(かつどうする)   act [v.i.]

躍する(かつやくする)   be in full activity

する(せいかつする)   live

する(ふっかつする)   revive [v.i.]

Onyomi Examples

カツ living, life, judo art of resuscitation, action, activity

カツジ printing type, movable type, printed text, print

シカツ life and death, life or death

シュウカツ job hunting, job searching

Kunyomi Examples

生きる いきる to live, to exist, to make a living, to subsist, to be in effect, to be in use, to function, to come to life, to be enlivened, to be safe (in baseball, go, etc.)

生かす いかす to make (the best) use of, to put to good use, to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.), to capitalise on (experience, etc.), to let live, to keep alive, to revive, to resuscitate, to bring back to life, to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)

生ける いける to arrange (flowers), to plant, living, live