Kanji Study

Bushu (Radical) Info:
艾 (カイ, ゲイ, もぐさ, よもぎ, おさ.める, か.る) – moxa; sagebrush; wormwood; mugwort
艸 (ソウ, くさ, くさかんむり, そうこう) – grass; plants

Henshall Mnemonic: plants on right are young

Levels: JLPT N3 | JLPT 2 (old) | Grade 6
Frequency: #458 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:

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JLPT N5 Words

• 若い   [わかい]
  (adj) young   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N4 Words

• 若し   [もし]
  (adv) (uk) if; in case; supposing   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N3 Words

• 若しも   [もしも]
  (adv) if   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N2 Words

• 若々しい   [わかわかしい]
  (adj) youthful; young   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 若しかしたら   [もしかしたら]
  (adv,exp) (uk) perhaps; maybe; by some chance   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 若しかすると   [もしかすると]
  (adv,exp) (uk) perhaps; maybe; by some chance   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N1 Words

• 若しくは   [もしくは]
  (conj,exp) or; otherwise   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 若干   [じゃっかん]
  (n-adv,n) some; few; number of   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT

• 若年   [じゃくねん]
  (n) youth   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 若布   [わかめ]
  (n) seaweed variety; alaria   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 若返り   [わかがえり]
  (n) rejuvenation; restoration of youth   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 若葉   [わかば]
  (n) new leaves; fresh verdure   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 老若   [ろうじゃく]
  (n,adj-na) (1) young and old; all ages   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 老若   [ろうにゃく]
  (n,adj-na) (1) young and old; all ages   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 若さ   [わかさ]
  (n) youth   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 若者   [わかもの]
  (n) young man; youth; lad   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 若手   [わかて]
  (n) young person   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 若松   [わかまつ]
  (n) young pine; New Year's symbolic pine decoration   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 若人   [わこうど]
  (n) young person; young man   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Find more details for 若 at jisho.org, Yookoso! or WWWJDIC

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.