Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N2

821 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 16

Meaning: fabricate, build, construct

Kunyomi: きず.く

Onyomi: チク

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: たけかんむり

Meaning: bamboo

Strokes: 6

Examples

Examples with audio

(けんちく)   construction, architecture

家(けんちくか)   architect

城する(ちくじょうする)   fortify, construct a castle

する(しんちくする)   build, construct

する(ぞうちくする)   build an addition

する(かいちくする)   rebuild, reconstruct

する(こうちくする)   build, construct

く(きずく)   build, construct

*山(つきやま)   artificial hill (in a garden)

*地(つきじ)   Tsukiji (place name)

Onyomi Examples

チク ... years since construction, ... years old (of a building), built in ...

チクジョウ castle construction, building a castle, fortification

本建 ホンケンチク permanent construction

イチク dismantling a (historic) building and reconstructing it elsewhere

Kunyomi Examples

きずく to build, to construct, to erect, to amass (e.g. fortune), to pile up