The Kanji Map

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: 言川

訓

Radical

Radical: 言

Reading: ごんべん

Meaning: speech

Strokes: 7

言

Examples

Examples with audio

訓練する（くんれんする） train [v.t.]

訓辞（くんじ） admonitory speech

訓読み（くんよみ） Japanese reading of kanji

訓読（くんどく） Japanese reading of Chinese text

教訓（きょうくん） lesson, moral (of a story)

Onyomi Examples

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

訓示（クンジ） instruction, direction, briefing

特訓（トックン） special training, intensive training, crash course

校訓（コウクン） school precepts

庭訓（テイキン） home education

家訓（カクン） family precepts, family motto, rule of the home

Kunyomi Examples

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

訓ずる（くんずる） to read kanji using its native Japanese pronunciation