Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 6

JLPT level: N1

631 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: uncommon, different, queerness, strangeness, wonderful, curious, unusual

Kunyomi: こと こと.なる

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading:

Meaning: field

Strokes: 5

Examples

Examples with audio

質(いしつ)   heterogeneous

国(いこく)   foreign country

議(いぎ)   objection

性(いせい)   the opposite sex

色(いしょく)   unique

文化(いぶんか)   foreign culture

常な(いじょうな)   abnormal

様な(いような)   bizarre

なる(ことなる)   differ

Onyomi Examples

difference (of opinion), strange, odd, unusual, different

イギ objection, dissent, protest

天変地 テンペンチイ natural disaster, cataclysm

ショウイ minor difference

Kunyomi Examples

こと difference (from one another), different thing, other, unusual, extraordinary

なる ことなる to differ, to vary, to disagree

なる ことなる to differ, to vary, to disagree

こと difference (from one another), different thing, other, unusual, extraordinary

けな exceptional, praiseworthy, laudable