Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 4

JLPT level: N3

277 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 13

Meaning: placement, put, set, deposit, leave behind, keep, employ, pawn

Kunyomi: お.く -お.き

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: あみがしら

Meaning: net

Strokes: 5

Examples

Examples with audio

(いち)   position, location

(そち)   measure, precaution [n.]

(そうち)   apparatus

する(はいちする)   arrange

する(せっちする)   install

する(ほうちする)   leave as is

く(おく)   put, place

Onyomi Examples

チカン substitution, replacement, permutation, substitution, displacement

換可能引数データ チカンカノウヒキスウデータ replaceable parameter data

リュウチ detention (usu. during investigation), imprisonment, poundage, custody

トウチ turning upside down, inversion

Kunyomi Examples

おく to put, to place, to leave (behind), to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.), to set up, to appoint (someone to a certain position), to hire, to employ, to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc.), to bear (in mind, etc.), to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool, to take in (boarders, etc.), to provide lodging in one's house, to separate spatially or temporally, to do something in advance, to leave something in a certain state, to keep something in a certain state