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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N3

720 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: permit, approve

Kunyomi: ゆる.す, もと

Onyomi: キョ

Composition: 言 午

許

Radical

Radical: 言

Reading: ごんべん

Meaning: speech

Strokes: 7

Reading: ごんべん

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Examples

Examples with audio

免許(めんきょ)   license [n.]

特許(とっきょ)   patent [n.]

許可する(きょかする)   approve, permit, admit

許す(ゆるす)   allow, forgive, permit, admit

Onyomi Examples

許諾 (キョダク) consent, assent, approval, permission

許可 (キョカ) permission, approval, authorization, license

特許 (トッキョ) patent, special permission, license, licence, concession, charter

専売特許 (センバイトッキョ) patent, one's specialty (party piece, etc.)

Kunyomi Examples

許す (ゆるす) to permit, to allow, to approve, to consent to, to forgive, to pardon, to excuse, to tolerate, to exempt (someone) from, to remit, to release, to let off, to acknowledge, to admit, to trust, to confide in, to let one's guard down, to give up (points in a game, distance in a race, etc.), to yield

許すまじ (ゆるすまじ) unforgivable, inexcusable, unpardonable

下 (もと) under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.), under (a flag, the sun, etc.), beneath, with (e.g. one blow), on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...), in (e.g. the name of ...), (someone's) side, (someone's) location

胸元 (むなもと) breast, chest, pit of the stomach, solar plexus, epigastrium

此処許 (ここもと) here, this area, around here, I, me

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