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English: Inst. institution temple mansion school | On-Yomi: イン | Kun-Yomi: No Kun-yomi readings found for this kanji |
Bushu (Radical) Info: 阜 (ぎふのふ) – left village
Henshall Mnemonic: institute complete with surrounding hills
Levels: JLPT N4 | JLPT 3 (old) | Grade 3
Frequency: #150 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #150 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
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JLPT N5 Words
JLPT N4 Words
JLPT N3 Words
JLPT N2 Words
JLPT N1 Words
- 衆議院 [しゅうぎいん]
(n) Lower House; House of Representatives [K] [D] [Jisho] - 参議院 [さんぎいん]
(n) House of Councillors [K] [D] [Jisho]
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 二院 [にいん]
(n) the two houses of legislature [K] [D] [Jisho] - 議院 [ぎいん]
(n) congress or parliament [K] [D] [Jisho] - 議院運営委員会 [ぎいんうんえいいいんかい]
House Steering Committee [K] [D] [Jisho] - 芸術院 [げいじゅついん]
(the Japan) Academy of Arts [K] [D] [Jisho] - 僧院 [そういん]
(n) monastery; temple [K] [D] [Jisho] - 孤児院 [こじいん]
(n) orphanage [K] [D] [Jisho] - 学院 [がくいん]
(n) institute; academy [K] [D] [Jisho] - 通院 [つういん]
(n) commuting to hospital [K] [D] [Jisho] - 国土地理院 [こくどちりいん]
Geographical Survey Institute [K] [D] [Jisho] - 上院 [しょういん]
(n) Upper House; Senate; Lords [K] [D] [Jisho] - 人事院 [じんじいん]
(n) National Personnel Authority [K] [D] [Jisho] - 院長 [いんちょう]
(n) director [K] [D] [Jisho] - 院内 [いんない]
(n) (1) inside the House (Diet); (2) inside the hospital [K] [D] [Jisho] - 美容院 [びよういん]
(n) beauty parlour; hairdressing salon [K] [D] [Jisho] - 書院 [しょいん]
(n) drawing room; study; publishing house; writing alcove [K] [D] [Jisho] - 会計検査院 [かいけいけんさいん]
(n) Board of Audit [K] [D] [Jisho] - 別院 [べついん]
(n) branch temple [K] [D] [Jisho] - 衆院 [しゅういん]
(n) lower house of the Diet [K] [D] [Jisho] - 養老院 [ようろういん]
(n) home for the aged; old people's home [K] [D] [Jisho] - 棋院 [きいん]
(n) shogi (go) hall [K] [D] [Jisho] - 修道院 [しゅうどういん]
(n) monastery; convent; cloister; abbey [K] [D] [Jisho] - 両院 [りょういん]
(n) both Houses of Parliament [K] [D] [Jisho] - 参院 [さんいん]
(n) (abbr) House of Councillors [K] [D] [Jisho] - 下院 [かいん]
(n) Lower House; lower (legislative) body [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.