A kanji
明
bright, light
- 8 strokes
- Taught in grade 2 (kyōiku kanji)
- No. 67 of 2,500 in newspapers
On'yomi
メイ、ミョウ、ミン
Kun'yomi
あ.かり、あか.るい、あか.るむ、あか.らむ、あき.らか、あ.ける、-あ.け、あ.く、あ.くる、あ.かす
A dot marks where the okurigana begin.
Stroke order
Stroke order is from KanjiVG, copyright Ulrich Apel, under CC BY-SA 3.0. A kanji is drawn only where KanjiVG and KANJIDIC2 count the same number of strokes.
Shapes inside it
The shapes EDRDG's KRADFILE lists 明 as containing. It is a lookup aid for finding a kanji by its parts: it says what the character contains, not where it comes from, and a shape need not be a kanji.
Written with 明 25 words
Grouped by JLPT level, easiest first, and oldest first within a level.
JLPT N5 · 3 words
JLPT N4 · 1 word
JLPT N3 · 10 words
JLPT N2 · 4 words
JLPT N1 · 7 words
Some of these words show it as a part of their “Taken apart” row: see the words taken apart with 明.
JMdict, KANJIDIC2 and KRADFILE are property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, from the dated files the group publishes. A word does not always use every reading or meaning listed for its kanji.