功
achievement, credit, honor, merits, success
Readings
On'yomi (音読み)
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
Nanori (名乗り)
Stroke Order
5 / 5
Information
Grade:4
Strokes:5
JLPT:1
Frequency:857
Vocabulary
ク
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 功能 | クノウ | effect; effectiveness; efficacy; virtue; benefit |
| 功力 | クリキ | merits (influence) of one's pious acts or religious practice |
| 功田 | クデン | land given to someone who has rendered a distinguished service (ritsuryō system) |
コウ
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 功績 | コウセキ | achievement; meritorious deed; distinguished service; contribution |
| 功労 | コウロウ | meritorious deed; services |
| 功能 | コウノウ | effect; effectiveness; efficacy; virtue; benefit |
| 成功 | セイコウ | success; achievement; succeeding (in life); (worldly) success; prosperity |
| 年功序列 | ネンコウジョレツ | seniority by length of service |
Other
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 功夫 | くふう | devising (a way); contriving; inventing; thinking up; figuring out; coming up with; working out; device; design; idea; plan; invention; dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation) |
| 即功 | そっこう | immediate effect; instant effect |
| しゅん功 | しゅんこう | completion of construction |
| 蛍雪の功 | けいせつのこう | the fruit of diligent study |
| 功徳 | くどく | merit; virtuous deed; act of merit; act of charity; divine reward (for virtuous deeds); grace (of the buddhas and gods); blessing; merit; meritum |
Visually Similar Kanji
These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes
巧
adroit, ingenuity, skilled
Grade 8JLPT 1
万
10,000, ten thousand
Grade 2JLPT 5
切
be sharp, cut, cutoff
Grade 2JLPT 4
坊
boy, priest, priest's residence
Grade 8JLPT N/A
均
average, level
Grade 5JLPT 2
坑
hole, pit
Grade 8JLPT 1
攻
aggression, attack, criticize, polish
Grade 8JLPT 1
坂
hill, incline, slope
Grade 3JLPT 2
共
alike, all, and, both, neither, together, with
Grade 4JLPT 3
式
ceremony, expression, form, function, method, rite, style, system
Grade 3JLPT 3