柔

柔 — tender, weakness, gentleness

JLPT: JLPT N2
Strokes: 9
Taught in: Secondary school
Frequency: #1187 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: じゅう juu

にゅう nyuu
Kun'yomi: やわ.らか yawa.raka

やわ.らかい yawa.rakai

やわ yawa

やわ.ら yawa.ra

Example words for this kanji are being written.

Words that use 柔

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