競

競 — emulate, compete with, bid

JLPT: JLPT N2
Strokes: 20
Taught in: School year 4
Frequency: #610 most common

Readings

On'yomi came with the character from Chinese; kun'yomi is the native Japanese word it was borrowed for. A dot marks where okurigana takes over, a hyphen marks a prefix or suffix position.

On'yomi: きょう kyou

けい kei
Kun'yomi: きそ.う kiso.u

せ.る se.ru

くら.べる kura.beru

Example words for this kanji are being written.

Words that use 競

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