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Bushu (Radical) Info:
日 (にち) – sun
頁 (おおがい) – page
日 (にち) – sun
頁 (おおがい) – page
Henshall Mnemonic: get subject heading correct on the day
Levels: JLPT N4 | JLPT 3 (old) | Grade 3
Frequency: #96 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #96 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
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JLPT N5 Words
JLPT N3 Words
- 題 [だい]
(n,vs) title; subject; theme; topic [K] [D] [Jisho] - 話題 [わだい]
(n) topic; subject [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N2 Words
JLPT N1 Words
- 議題 [ぎだい]
(n) topic of discussion; agenda [K] [D] [Jisho] - 出題 [しゅつだい]
(n) proposing a question [K] [D] [Jisho] - 題する [だいする]
(vs) to be titled (e.g. a book); to be named [K] [D] [Jisho] - 課題 [かだい]
(n) subject; theme; task [K] [D] [Jisho] - 主題 [しゅだい]
(n) subject; theme; motif [K] [D] [Jisho]
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 命題 [めいだい]
(n) proposition; thesis [K] [D] [Jisho] - 問題意識 [もんだいいしき]
awareness of the issues [K] [D] [Jisho] - 問題点 [もんだいてん]
(n) the point at issue [K] [D] [Jisho] - 南北問題 [なんぼくもんだい]
North-South problem [K] [D] [Jisho] - 題材 [だいざい]
(n) subject; theme [K] [D] [Jisho] - 題字 [だいじ]
(n) letters in a title [K] [D] [Jisho] - 副題 [ふくだい]
(n) subtitle; subheading [K] [D] [Jisho] - 社会問題 [しゃかいもんだい]
social problem [K] [D] [Jisho] - 表題 [ひょうだい]
(n) title; index [K] [D] [Jisho] - 放題 [ほうだい]
(n,n-suf) as much as you would like to [K] [D] [Jisho] - 仮題 [かだい]
(n) a tentative title [K] [D] [Jisho] - 例題 [れいだい]
(n) example; exercise (for the reader) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 難題 [なんだい]
(n) difficult theme [K] [D] [Jisho] - 別問題 [べつもんだい]
(n) different thing; another question; different case [K] [D] [Jisho]
Acknowledgments
The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.
The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.
Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.
The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.
If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.