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国
- kun: くに
- on: コク
- meaning: country
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 国 | くに | country, (the) state; region; province (of Japan); home (i.e. hometown, home country); land, earth |
| 外国 | がいこく | foreign country |
| 外国人 | がいこくじん | foreigner |
| 韓国 | かんこく | (South) Korea |
| 国家 | こっか | state, country, nation |
| 国会 | こっかい | National Diet, parliament, congress |
| 国際 | こくさい | international |
| 国内 | こくない | internal, domestic |
| 国民 | こくみん | nation, nationality, people, citizen |
| 国連 | こくれん | UN, United Nations |
長
- kun: なが.い, おさ
- on: チョウ
- meaning: long, leader
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 長 | ちょう, おさ | chief, head |
| 委員長 | いいんちょう | committee chairman |
| 会長 | かいちょう | president (of a society), chairman |
| 議長 | ぎちょう | chairman, speaker (e.g. of assembly), president (e.g. of council, senate, etc.), moderator (e.g. of a newsgroup) |
| 社長 | しゃちょう | company president, manager, director |
| 成長 | せいちょう | growth, grow to adulthood |
| 長官 | ちょうかん | secretary (government), director, chief |
| 長男 | ちょうなん | eldest son |
| 部長 | ぶちょう | head (chief, director) of a section or department; head of a (school) club, head of a (school) team |
| 延長 | えんちょう | extension, elongation, prolongation, lengthening; Enchou era (923.4.11-931.4.26) |
時
- kun: とき, -どき
- on: ジ
- meaning: time, hour
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 時 | とき | time, hour; occasion, moment |
| 時間 | じかん | time; hours |
| 時期 | じき | time, season, period; soon, shortly |
| 時代 | じだい | period, epoch, era, age; the times, those days; oldness, ancientness, antiquity; antique, period piece |
| 当時 | とうじ | at that time, in those days |
| 同時 | どうじ | simultaneous(ly), concurrent, same time, synchronous, together |
| 一時 | いちじ, いっとき | one hour, short time, once, a time, temporarily, at one time, twelfth part of a day |
| 時事 | じじ | events of the day, current affairs |
| 時半 | じはん | about an hour, short time; half past (the hour) |
| 臨時 | りんじ | temporary, special, extraordinary |
行
- kun: い.く, ゆ.く, -ゆ.き, -ゆき, -い.き, -いき, おこな.う, おこ.なう
- on: コウ, ギョウ, アン
- meaning: going, journey
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 行う | おこなう | to perform, to do, to conduct oneself, to carry out |
| 行 | ぎょう | line (i.e. of text), row, verse; carya (austerities); samskara (formations); running script (a semi-cursive style of kanji) |
| 銀行 | ぎんこう | bank |
| 行政 | ぎょうせい | administration |
| 行動 | こうどう | action, conduct, behaviour, behavior, mobilization, mobilisation |
| 現行 | げんこう | present, current, in operation |
| 行為 | こうい | act, deed, conduct |
| 行方 | ゆくえ | (one's) whereabouts; course, direction |
| 発行 | はっこう | issue (publications), publishing; raising an event (software) |
| 旅行 | りょこう | travel, trip |
分
- kun: わ.ける, わ.け, わ.かれる, わ.かる, わ.かつ
- on: ブン, フン, ブ
- meaning: part, minute of time, segment, share, degree, one's lot, duty, understand, know, rate, 1%, chances, shaku/100
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 分け | わけ | sharing, division; draw, tie |
| 分ける | わける | to divide, to separate, to make distinctions, to differentiate (between) |
| 自分 | じぶん | myself, yourself, oneself, himself, herself; I, me |
| 部分 | ぶぶん | portion, section, part |
| 分野 | ぶんや | field, sphere, realm, division, branch |
| 十分 | じゅうぶん | plenty, enough, sufficient, satisfactory, adequate; division into ten; perfectly, thoroughly, fully, in full |
| 処分 | しょぶん | disposal, dealing, punishment |
| 半分 | はんぶん | half |
| 残った分 | のこったぶん | amount left over |
| 気分 | きぶん | feeling, mood |
後
- kun: のち, うし.ろ, うしろ, あと, おく.れる
- on: ゴ, コウ
- meaning: behind, back, later
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 後 | あと | behind, rear; after, later; after one's death; remainder, the rest; descendant, successor, heir; past/previous; more (i.e. five more minutes) |
| 午後 | ごご | afternoon, p.m. |
| 後ろ | うしろ | back, behind, rear |
| 今後 | こんご | from now on, hereafter |
| 最後 | さいご | last, end, conclusion; (after -tara form or -ta form followed by "ga") no sooner than, right after (often having negative consequences); one's final moments |
| 戦後 | せんご | postwar period, period after Second World War |
| 後半 | こうはん | second half, latter half |
| 直後 | ちょくご | immediately following |
| 後援 | こうえん | support, backing |
| 後継 | こうけい | successor |
前
- kun: まえ, -まえ
- on: ゼン
- meaning: in front, before
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 午前 | ごぜん | morning, a.m. |
| 前年 | ぜんねん | the preceding year, the previous year, last year |
| 前回 | ぜんかい | last time, last installment, last instalment, last session |
| 前提 | ぜんてい | preamble, premise, reason, prerequisite, condition, assumption, hypothesis |
| 前日 | ぜんじつ, まえび | previous day, the day before |
| 直前 | ちょくぜん | just before |
| 名前 | なまえ | name, full name; given name, first name |
| 前半 | ぜんはん, ぜんぱん | first half |
| 以前 | いぜん | ago, since, before, previous |
| 事前 | じぜん | prior, beforehand, in advance |
間
- kun: あいだ, ま, あい
- on: カン, ケン
- meaning: interval, space
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 間 | あいだ | space (between), gap, interval, distance; time (between), pause, break; span (temporal or spatial), stretch, period (while); relationship (between, among); members (within, among); due to, because of |
| 間もなく | まもなく | soon, before long, in a short time; (after verb) lacking time to ..., without time to ... |
| 期間 | きかん | period, term, interval |
| 時間 | じかん | time; hours |
| 人間 | にんげん | human being, man, person; character (of a person) |
| 年間 | ねんかん | year (period of) |
| 民間 | みんかん | private, civilian, civil, popular, folk, unofficial |
| 中間 | ちゅうかん | middle, midway, interim |
| 仲間 | なかま | company, fellow, colleague, associate, comrade, mate, group, circle of friends, partner |
| 空間 | くうかん | space, room, airspace |
東
- kun: ひがし
- on: トウ
- meaning: east
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 東 | ひがし, ひむかし, ひんがし | east |
| 東京 | とうきょう | Tokyo (current capital of Japan) |
| 中東 | ちゅうとう | Middle East |
| 東海 | とうかい | region south of Tokyo on Pacific Ocean side of Japan, eastern sea |
| 東北 | とうほく, ひがしきた | north-east; Northern most six prefectures of Honshu |
| 東欧 | とうおう | Eastern Europe |
| 東西 | とうざい | East and West; whole country; Orient and Occident, Western and Eastern; Your attention, please! |
| 東南 | とうなん, ひがしみなみ | south-east |
| 東芝 | とうしば | Toshiba (company) |
| 東洋 | とうよう | Orient |
今
- kun: いま
- on: コン, キン
- meaning: now
- words:
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 今 | いま | now, the present time, just now, soon, immediately, (one) more |
| 今や | いまや | now |
| 今回 | こんかい | now, this time, lately |
| 今月 | こんげつ | this month |
| 今後 | こんご | from now on, hereafter |
| 今年 | ことし, こんねん | this year |
| 今度 | こんど | now, this time, next time, another time |
| 今日 | こんにち, きょう, こんち, こんじつ | today, this day |
| 今季 | こんき | this season |
| 今春 | こんしゅん | this spring, spring this year |
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