Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N3

931 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 9

Meaning: escape, flee, shirk, evade, set free

Kunyomi: に.げる に.がす のが.す のが.れる

Onyomi: トウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: しんにょう

Meaning: walk

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

亡者(とうぼうしゃ)   runaway, fugitive

走する(とうそうする)   run away, escape

亡する(とうぼうする)   run away, escape

避する(とうひする)   escape, evade

がす(にがす)   let loose, set free, [v.t.]

げる(にげる)   escape, run away [v.i.]

げ道(にげみち)   way out, escape route

す(のがす)   miss, waste, let slip [v.t.]

す(みのがす)   miss, overlook

れる(のがれる)   escape, evade [v.i.]

言いれ(いいのがれ)   evasion, excuse

Onyomi Examples

トウボウ escape, flight, running away, elopement, fleeing

トウソウ flight, desertion, escape

Kunyomi Examples

げる にげる to escape, to run away

げるが勝ち にげるがかち he that fights and runs away may live to fight another day, fleeing is winning

がす にがす to set free, to let go, to release, to miss (e.g. a chance), to lose, to let get away, to fail to catch

のがす to miss (e.g. a chance), to lose, to let get away, to set free, to let go, to fail to ...

れる のがれる to escape