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The Kanji Map

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: 米 大 頁

類

Radical

Radical: 頁

Reading: おおがい

Meaning: leaf

Strokes: 9

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Examples

Examples with audio

類型(るいけい)   type, pattern

類語(るいご)   synonym

類人猿(るいじんえん)   anthropoid

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

人類(じんるい)   mankind, humanity

同類(どうるい)   the same kind, accomplice

衣類(いるい)   clothes, clothing, garments

親類(しんるい)   relative, kin

哺乳類(ほにゅうるい)   mammal, mammalian

類似する(るいじする)   similar to [v.i.]

分類する(ぶんるいする)   classify

Onyomi Examples

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

類似 (ルイジ) resemblance, similarity, likeness, analogy

魚類 (ギョルイ) fish, fishes

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

Kunyomi Examples

類い (たぐい) kind, sort, type, equal, match, peer

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

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