Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 4

JLPT level: N3

678 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 18

Meaning: sort, kind, variety, class, genus

Kunyomi: たぐ.い

Onyomi: ルイ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: おおがい

Meaning: leaf

Strokes: 9

Examples

Examples with audio

型(るいけい)   type, pattern

語(るいご)   synonym

人猿(るいじんえん)   anthropoid

(しゅるい)   variety, kind, type, category

(じんるい)   mankind, humanity

(どうるい)   the same kind, accomplice

(いるい)   clothes, clothing, garments

(しんるい)   relative, kin

哺乳(ほにゅうるい)   mammal, mammalian

似する(るいじする)   similar to [v.i.]

する(ぶんるいする)   classify

Onyomi Examples

ルイ kind, sort, type, class, genus, order, family, similar example, parallel, the like

ルイジ resemblance, similarity, likeness, analogy

ギョルイ fish, fishes

魚介 ギョカイルイ marine products, seafood, fish and shellfish

Kunyomi Examples

たぐい kind, sort, type, equal, match, peer

いする たぐいする to be equal to, to be as good as, to be a match for, to rival