Meanings
Verb (5-dan, る, intransitive)
Usually written in kana
1. to become; to get; to grow; to turn; to reach; to attain
2. to result in; to turn out; to end up; to prove (to be)
3. to consist of; to be composed of; to be made up of
as ...からなる or ...よりなる
4. to be completed; to be realized; to succeed; to be attained; to be accomplished
5. to change (into); to turn (into); to transform
6. to come (to do); to begin (to do); to grow (to do)
7. to come to; to amount to; to add up to; to make
8. to play (the part of); to act as
9. to be used for; to be useful for; to serve as
10. to be promoted
Auxiliary verb (5-dan, る)
Honorific
Usually written in kana
11. to do ...
as お + masu stem + になる or ご + noun+ になる
Kanji used
become
Pitch accent
Top 6800
Used in vocabulary (28 in total)
I see; that's right; indeed
to become (formal)
consists of; comprises; is made up of
Examples (11 in total)
Society consists of individuals.
Man consists of soul and body.
Coal consists mostly of carbon.
This novel consists of three parts.
What does aspirin consist of?
It goes without saying that Rome was not built in a day.
My house is comprised of these four rooms.
This class is composed of 35 pupils.
The class consists of fifty students.
The group consists of 50 students in all.
The group was made up of six girls and four guys.