Kanji Study

Bushu (Radical) Info:
口 (くち) – mouth
夕 (ゆうべ) – evening

Henshall Mnemonic: mouth calls name at night

Levels: JLPT N5 | JLPT 4 (old) | Grade 1
Frequency: #177 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:

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Click [K] to look up the word's individual character(s) at WWWJDIC.
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Click [Jisho] to look up the word at Jisho.org.

JLPT N5 Words

• 有名   [ゆうめい]
  (adj-na,n) fame   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名前   [なまえ]
  (n) name   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 片仮名   [かたかな]
  (n) katakana   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 平仮名   [ひらがな]
  (n) hiragana; 47 syllables; the cursive syllabary   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N3 Words

• 署名   [しょめい]
  (n,vs) signature   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名   [な]
  (n) name; reputation   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名人   [めいじん]
  (n) master; expert   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N2 Words

• 送り仮名   [おくりがな]
  kana written after a kanji to complete the full (usually kun) reading of the word (may inflect)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 地名   [ちめい]
  (n) place name   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 氏名   [しめい]
  (n) full name; identity   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 振り仮名   [ふりがな]
  furigana (hiragana over kanji); pronunciation key   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名作   [めいさく]
  (n) masterpiece   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名刺   [めいし]
  (n) business card   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名詞   [めいし]
  (n) noun   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 代名詞   [だいめいし]
  (n) pronoun   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名字   [みょうじ]
  (n) surname; family name   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名所   [めいしょ]
  (n) famous place   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 題名   [だいめい]
  (n) title   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名物   [めいぶつ]
  (n) famous product; special product; speciality; specialty   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 宛名   [あてな]
  (n) address; direction   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 仮名   [かな]
  (n) (uk) Japanese syllabary (alphabets); kana   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 仮名遣い   [かなづかい]
  (n) kana orthography; syllabary spelling   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N1 Words

• 姓名   [せいめい]
  (n) full name   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名高い   [なだかい]
  (adj) famous; celebrated; well-known   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名札   [なふだ]
  (n) name plate; name tag   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT

• 命名   [めいめい]
  (n,vs) naming; christening   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 大名   [だいみょう]
  (n) Japanese feudal lord   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 除名   [じょめい]
  (n,vs) expulsion; excommunication   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 芸名   [げいめい]
  (n) stage name   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 病名   [びょうめい]
  (n) name of a disease   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 指名   [しめい]
  (n,vs) name; nominate; designate   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 指名手配   [しめいてはい]
  (n) search for a named suspect   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 人名   [じんめい]
  (n) person's name   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 連名   [れんめい]
  (n) joint signature   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 異名   [いみょう]
  (n) another name; nickname; alias   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 知名   [ちめい]
  (adj-na,n) well-known   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 大義名分   [たいぎめいぶん]
  (n) a just cause   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名案   [めいあん]
  (n) good idea   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名画   [めいが]
  (n) famous picture; masterpiece   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名義   [めいぎ]
  (n) name   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 実名   [じつめい]
  (n) real name   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名曲   [めいきょく]
  (n) famous music   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名月   [めいげつ]
  (n) harvest moon; full moon   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 筆名   [ひつめい]
  (n) alias; pseudonym; pen name; nom de plume   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 品名   [ひんめい]
  (n) name of product   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名残惜しい   [なごりおしい]
  (adj) regret (at parting); reluctance (to part)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名指し   [なざし]
  (n) nomination; calling names   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名実   [めいじつ]
  (n) in name and in reality; nominally and virtually; form and contents   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 同名   [どうみょう]
  (n) same name   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 名手   [めいしゅ]
  (n) expert   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Find more details for 名 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.