Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 1

JLPT level: N5

950 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 8

Meaning: rain

Kunyomi: あめ あま- -さめ

Onyomi:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: あめ

Meaning: rain

Strokes: 8

Examples

Examples with audio

量(こううりょう)   amount of rainfall

前線(ばいうぜんせん)   seasonal rain front

期(うき)   rainy season

(らいう)   thunderstorm

(あめ)   rain

(おおあめ)   heavy rain

上がり(あめあがり)   after the rain

蛙(あまがえる)   tree frog

雲(あまぐも)   rain cloud

*小(こさめ)   light rain

Onyomi Examples

アマミズ rain water, "rain water" solar term (approx. February 19)

ウキ rainy season

集中豪 シュウチュウゴウウ local downpour, severe rain fall

シグレ rain shower in late autumn (fall) or early winter, seasonable rain

Kunyomi Examples

あめ rain, rainy day, rainy weather, the November suit (in hanafuda)

降り あめふり rainfall, rainy weather, rainy, wet

五月 さみだれ early-summer rain

黒い くろいあめ black rain, heavily polluted, radioactive rain sometimes following an atmospheric nuclear explosion (esp. that of Hiroshima)