Meanings
Noun
1. child (esp. a boy)
2. viscount
3. founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master
4. masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature)
Archaic
Pronoun
5. you
of one's equals
Suffix
6. -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
Alt. forms
Kanji used
child
Pitch accent
Top 5600
Used in vocabulary (196 in total)
woman; girl
tune; tone; vein; mood; condition; state of health
boy; man; male
pupil; disciple; adherent; follower; apprentice; young person
twins; twin
parent and child
confectionery; sweets; candy; cake
womb; uterus
particle; grain
descendant; posterity; offspring
gene; genetic
young nobleman
element (esp. component in electronics); elemental device; device; data; datum
numerator; molecule; member; element
factor; factor; divisor
emperor; ruler (with a heavenly mandate); heavenly being; celestial being
seed; pit
wife and children; (arch.) wife
children; sons; (lit.) children and younger brothers; young people
young nobleman; scion of a noble family; princely young man; man with an aristocratic air
sons and daughters; children; girl
man of virtue; wise man; person of high rank; the four gentlemen (plum, chrysanthemum, orchid, and bamboo)
interest (on a loan, deposit, etc.)
table; desk
eldest child; oldest child; first child; eldest son; oldest son
scarecrow; figurehead; dummy
terminal (electricity); pin (on a semiconductor or microcontroller); port (e.g. LAN port)
screw; key (of a clock, watch, etc.); spring (of a clock, watch, etc.)
ovum; ovule; egg cell
reasons; circumstances; significance; hindrance; obstruction; interference
women and children; woman; grown woman; wife
three-cornered hat; tricorne
person of lofty virtue; man of noble character; perfect person; saint
talented man; clever man
bamboo ladle
heir; successor
graviton (hypothetical elementary particle)
bearing many children; multiparity; multipariety; multiparousness; high birth rate
small knife that is largely ornamental or used to cut open letters and the like
Laozi; Lao Tzu; Lao Tse
Wood Rat (1st year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)
neo-Confucianism (based on the teachings of Zhu Xi and his followers)
ornamental weights used to keep curtains and the like from blowing around in the wind
the next child; second child
filial child
Sun Tzu (Chinese military strategist, 544?-496 BCE); The Art of War (military text by Sun Tzu, 512 BC); Sun Bin Bing Fa (military text by Sun Bin)
written work (esp. a bound text, as opposed to a scroll); a text written entirely in kana; graphic novel (esp. one created between the 12th and 19th centuries); notebook (for practicing kana, drawing pictures, etc.); rough draft
sumac gallnut
consonant
selector; selective
bulbil (esp. of a Japanese yam); propagule; brood bud
gentlemen; you; (all of) you or them; Hundred Schools of Thought
last child
child born out of wedlock; illegitimate child; love child
elm bark clothes traditionally worn by the Ainu; elm bark textile
(arch.) girl; (arch.) young (unmarried) woman; (grown) woman; lady; (someone else's) wife
small number of children (per family); low birth rate; youngest child (in the family)
descriptor; designator
discontented element; discontented (grumbling) member
light quantum; photon
filename extension
puppeteer; puppet player
cotyledon; seed leaf
fruiting body; sporocarp
trochanter
(arch.) girl; (arch.) young (unmarried) woman; (grown) woman; lady; (someone else's) wife
little child; (arch.) male between 4 and 16 years old (ritsuryo period); (arch.) pupil; (arch.) disciple; I; me
angiosperm; flowering plants
adopted child
offspring (esp. livestock); progeny
woman in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics); female scientist
rebellious child; rebel; traitor
felt hat; fedora; trilby
modifier; qualifier
type of land rent paid by farmers
type of land rent paid by farmers
Water Rat (49th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1912, 1972, 2032)
Metal Rat (37th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1960, 2020, 2080)
monadic operator; unary operator
Fire Rat (13th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1936, 1996, 2056)
dead child
eclampsia
felt hat; fedora; trilby
illegitimate child
oscillator; vibrator
indicator; specifier; designator
cryopreserved oocyte; frozen ovum
lion; left-hand guardian dog at a Shinto shrine
forceps
(philosophical) monad
Earth Rat (25th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1948, 2008, 2068)
editorial-staff member
interest-bearing liabilities; interest-bearing debt; debt with interest; liability with interest
sub-temple
dissident element (e.g. in a political party); discontented element
hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis)
one's descendants; one's offspring; posterity
association; connector
Chandra (Hindu moon god also revered as one of the twelve devas in Shingon Buddhism); (arch.) moon
inductor (electronics)
reed warbler (esp. the great reed warbler, but also the black-browed reed warbler)
rash; skin eruption
castor bean
conidia; conidiospore; conidium; conidial
(male) columnist
Surya (Hindu sun god also revered as one of the twelve devas in Shingon Buddhism); (arch.) sun
ascomycete; sac fungus
pickup; sensing element
stator (elec.)
(electrical) inductor
Cnidium monnieri fruit
galbanum (gum resin from fennel)
wax gourd seed; winter melon seed
strongly correlated electron system
extract of Chinese wolfberry fruit
cryopreserved oocyte; frozen ovum
Ficus pumila var. awkeotsang (variety of climbing fig)
Cape jasmine (Gardenia jasminoides); Cape jessamine; gardenia
insulator
alley; alleyway; crossroads; intersection
child; children
staff at a horse changing station during the ritsuryo period
staff at a horse changing station during the ritsuryo period