Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1476 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 9

Meaning: shield, escutcheon, pretext

Kunyomi: たて

Onyomi: ジュン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: eye

Examples

Onyomi Examples

相矛 アイムジュン mutually contradictory

形容矛 ケイヨウムジュン contradictio in adjecto, contradiction between an adjective and the noun it modifies (wooden iron, hot ice, etc.)

Kunyomi Examples

たて shield, buckler, escutcheon, pretext

楯突く たてつく to defy, to disobey, to rebel against, to oppose, to resist

人間の にんげんのたて human shield

まるたて round shield, buckler