磨

磨 — grind, polish, scour

JLPT: JLPT N2
Strokes: 16
Taught in: Secondary school
Frequency: #1608 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: ま ma
Kun'yomi: みが.く miga.ku

す.る su.ru

Example words for this kanji are being written.

Words that use 磨

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