A kanji
重
heavy, important, esteem, respect, heap up, pile up, nest of boxes, -fold
- 9 strokes
- Taught in grade 3 (kyōiku kanji)
- No. 193 of 2,500 in newspapers
On'yomi
ジュウ、チョウ
Kun'yomi
え、おも.い、おも.り、おも.なう、かさ.ねる、かさ.なる、おも
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 重 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 重 23 words
Grouped by JLPT level, easiest first, and oldest first within a level.
JLPT N5 · 1 word
JLPT N3 · 10 words
- 重なるかさなるto be piled up, lie on top of one another
- 重ねるかさねるto pile up, to put something on another, to heap up
- 重要じゅうようimportant, essential
- 重視じゅうしimportance, stress
- 重体じゅうたいseriously ill, critical state
- 重大じゅうだいserious, important
- 慎重しんちょうcareful, prudent, cautious
- 貴重きちょうprecious, valuable
- 尊重そんちょうrespect, esteem, regard
- 体重たいじゅう(body) weight
JLPT N2 · 7 words
JLPT N1 · 5 words
Some of these words show it as a part of their “Taken apart” row: see the words taken apart with 重.
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