Kanji Study

Bushu (Radical) Info: 牛 (うし) – cow

Henshall Mnemonic: cow is a thing with four legs

Levels: JLPT N4 | JLPT 3 (old) | Grade 3
Frequency: #215 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:

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JLPT N5 Words

• 飲み物   [のみもの]
  (n) drink; beverage   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 飲物   [のみもの]
  (n) drink; beverage   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 果物   [くだもの]
  (n) fruit   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 荷物   [にもつ]
  (n) luggage; baggage   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 建物   [たてもの]
  (n) building   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 食べ物   [たべもの]
  (n) food   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 動物   [どうぶつ]
  (n) animal   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 買い物   [かいもの]
  (n) shopping   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 買物   [かいもの]
  (n) shopping   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 物   [もの]
  (n) thing; object   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N4 Words

• 見物   [けんぶつ]
  (n,vs) sightseeing   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 乗り物   [のりもの]
  (n) vehicle   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 贈り物   [おくりもの]
  (n) present; gift   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 着物   [きもの]
  (n) kimono   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 動物園   [どうぶつえん]
  (n) zoo; zoological gardens   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 品物   [しなもの]
  (n) goods; article; thing   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 忘れ物   [わすれもの]
  (n) lost article; something forgotten   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N3 Words

• 穀物   [こくもつ]
  (n) grain; cereal; corn   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 作物   [さくもつ]
  (n) produce (e.g. agricultural); crops   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 書物   [しょもつ]
  (n) books   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 植物   [しょくぶつ]
  (n) plant; vegetation   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 食物   [しょくもつ]
  (n) food; foodstuff   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 人物   [じんぶつ]
  (n) character; personality; person; man; personage; talented man   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 生き物   [いきもの]
  (n) living thing; animal   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 生物   [せいぶつ]
  (n) living things; creature   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N2 Words

JLPT N1 Words

Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT

• その物   [そのもの]
  (n) the very thing; itself   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 安物   [やすもの]
  (n) cheap article (poor quality)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 異物   [いぶつ]
  (n,pref) foreign substance; foreign body; xeno   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 遺失物   [いしつぶつ]
  (n) lost article   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 遺物   [いぶつ]
  (n) relic; momento   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 一人物   [いちじんぶつ]
  (n) man of some importance; character   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 汚物   [おぶつ]
  (n) dirt; dust; garbage   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 卸売物価   [おろしうりぶっか]
  wholesale price   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 化け物   [ばけもの]
  (n) goblin; apparition; monster; ghost; phantom; spectre   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 化合物   [かごうぶつ]
  (n) (chemical) compound   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 可燃物   [かねんぶつ]
  (n) combustible(s); inflammables; inflammability   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 夏物   [なつもの]
  (n) summer goods   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 怪物   [かいぶつ]
  (n) monster   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 海産物   [かいさんぶつ]
  (n) marine products   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 絵巻物   [えまきもの]
  (n) picture scroll   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 乾物   [ほしもの]
  (n) laundry on the line; clothes for drying   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 器物   [きぶつ]
  (n) container; receptacle   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 供物   [くもつ]
  (n) offering   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 建造物   [けんぞうぶつ]
  (n) structure   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 絹織物   [きぬおりもの]
  (n) silk goods   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 見物人   [けんぶつにん]
  (n) spectator; sightseer; onlookers   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 現物   [げんぶつ]
  (n) stocks; products   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 好物   [こうぶつ]
  (n) favorite dish; favorite food   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 抗生物質   [こうせいぶっしつ]
  (n) antibiotics   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 国立博物館   [こくりつはくぶつかん]
  national museum   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Find more details for 物 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.