Kanji Study

Bushu (Radical) Info:
辷 (しんにゅう, すべ.る, すべ.らす) – road; glide; skate; slip; fail in exams; (kokuji)
込 (-こ.む, こ.む, こ.み, -こ.み, こ.める, こみ, ごめ) – crowded; mixture; in bulk; included; (kokuji)

Henshall Mnemonic: proclaim that one has made a move

Levels: JLPT N2 | JLPT 2 (old) | Grade 5
Frequency: #429 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:

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JLPT N3 Words

• 製造   [せいぞう]
  (n,vs) manufacture; production   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N2 Words

• 造船   [ぞうせん]
  (n) shipbuilding   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 構造   [こうぞう]
  (n) structure; construction   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 改造   [かいぞう]
  (n,vs) (1) remodeling; (2) modding (comp)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 人造   [じんぞう]
  (n) man-made; synthetic; artificial   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 造る   [つくる]
  (v5r) to make; to create; to manufacture; to draw up; to write; to compose; to build; to coin; to cultivate; to organize; to establish; to make up (a face); to trim (a tree); to fabricate; to prepare (food); to commit (sin); to construct   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N1 Words

• 荷造り   [にづくり]
  (n,vs) packing; baling; crating   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 創造   [そうぞう]
  (n,vs) creation   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 造り   [つくり]
  (n) make-up; structure; physique   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 偽造   [ぎぞう]
  (n) forgery; falsification; fabrication; counterfeiting   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT

• 造形   [ぞうけい]
  (n) molding; modelling (cf. plastic arts)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 造語   [ぞうご]
  (n) coined word   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 造成   [ぞうせい]
  (n,vs) creation; clearing; reclamation   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 造反   [ぞうはん]
  (n) rebellion   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 造幣局   [ぞうへいきょく]
  (n) (coin) mint   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 手造り   [てづくり]
  (adj-no,n) handmade; homegrown; hand-crafted; homemade   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 創造的   [そうぞうてき]
  (adj-na) creative   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 創造力   [そうぞうりょく]
  creative power   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 酒造   [しゅぞう]
  (n) sake brewing   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 無造作   [むぞうさ]
  (adj-na,n) easiness; simplicity   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 醸造   [じょうぞう]
  (n) brewing; distillation   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 変造   [へんぞう]
  (n) alteration; defacement; debasement; falsification; forgery   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 建造   [けんぞう]
  (n) building; construction   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 建造物   [けんぞうぶつ]
  (n) structure   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 鋳造   [ちゅうぞう]
  (n,vs) casting; founding; minting   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 模造   [もぞう]
  (n,vs) imitation; mimic   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 木造   [もくぞう]
  (n) wooden; made of wood   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Find more details for 造 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.