Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 4

JLPT level: N2

1134 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 10

Meaning: instruction, Japanese character reading, explanation, read

Kunyomi: おし.える よ.む くん.ずる

Onyomi: クン キン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: ごんべん

Meaning: speech

Strokes: 7

Examples

Examples with audio

練する(くんれんする)   train [v.t.]

辞(くんじ)   admonitory speech

読み(くんよみ)   Japanese reading of kanji

読(くんどく)   Japanese reading of Chinese text

(きょうくん)   lesson, moral (of a story)

Onyomi Examples

クン native Japanese reading of a Chinese character, precept, lesson, one's teachings

クンジ instruction, direction, briefing

トックン special training, intensive training, crash course

コウクン school precepts

テイキン home education

カクン family precepts, family motto, rule of the home

Kunyomi Examples

よむ to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading

ずる くんずる to read kanji using its native Japanese pronunciation