Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N3

514 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 12

Meaning: extent, degree, law, formula, distance, limits, amount

Kunyomi: ほど -ほど

Onyomi: テイ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: のぎへん

Meaning: grain

Strokes: 5

Examples

Examples with audio

度(ていど)   degree, grade

(おんてい)   musical interval

(かてい)   process

(にってい)   itinerary, day's agenda

式(ほうていしき)   equation

(ほど)   degree, extent

三日(みっかほど)   about three days

(さきほど)   some time ago

Onyomi Examples

テイド degree, amount, grade, standard, of the order of (following a number), about, approximately

朱学 テイシュガク neo-Confucianism (based on the teaching of the Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi)

キテイ official regulations, inner rules

修士課 シュウシカテイ master's course

Kunyomi Examples

ほど extent, degree, measure, limit, bounds, (span of) time, (a) distance, the state of, the status of, the condition of, about, around, approximately, or so, as much as ..., to the extent of ..., like ..., the more ... the more ...

なく ほどなく soon, before long, shortly thereafter

驚くほど おどろくほど to a surprising degree, to a remarkable extent, surprisingly, astonishingly, amazingly, alarmingly

前ほど まえほど to the previous extent, as much as previously, as much as one used to