Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N2

893 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 15

Meaning: quake, shake, tremble, quiver, shiver

Kunyomi: ふる.う ふる.える ふる.わせる ふる.わす

Onyomi: シン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: あめかんむり

Meaning: rain

Strokes: 8

Examples

Examples with audio

動(しんどう)   shock, tremor, impact

度(しんど)   Japanese earthquake scale

源(しんげん)   epicenter

災(しんさい)   earthquake (disaster)

(じしん)   earthquake

(きょうしん)   severe earthquake

(じゃくしん)   mild earthquake

える(ふるえる)   shiver, shake, quake [v.i.]

いする(みぶるいする)   shiver, tremble, shudder

Onyomi Examples

シン zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east)

シンゲン hypocentre (of an earthquake), hypocenter

ビシン slight earthquake

ケイシン weak earthquake

Kunyomi Examples

ふるう to shake, to tremble, to vibrate

える ふるえる to shiver, to shake, to quake, to tremble, to quaver, to quiver

わせる ふるわせる to (make something) quiver, to shake, to tremble, to vibrate

わす ふるわす to (make something) quiver, to shake, to tremble, to vibrate