芽
bud, germ, spear, sprout
Readings
On'yomi (音読み)
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
Nanori (名乗り)
Stroke Order
8 / 8
Information
Grade:4
Strokes:8
JLPT:1
Frequency:1691
Vocabulary
ガ
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 発芽 | ハツガ | germination; sprouting; budding |
| 麦芽 | バクガ | malt |
| 萌芽 | ホウガ | germination; germ; sprout; early sign; beginning; starting to appear |
| 花芽 | カガ | flower bud |
| 芽胞 | ガホウ | spore; endospore |
Other
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 芽 | め | sprout; shoot; bud; germinal disk (in an egg) |
| 御芽出度う | おめでとう | congratulations!; well done!; best wishes!; all the best! |
| 芽子 | はぎ | bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza); dark red exterior with blue interior (color combination worn in autumn); Hagi (city in Yamaguchi) |
| 芽出度い | めでたい | happy; auspicious; propitious; joyous; naive |
| 芽生え | めばえ | bud; sprout |
Visually Similar Kanji
These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes
芋
potato
Grade 8JLPT 1
芳
balmy, favorable, fragrant, perfume
Grade 8JLPT 1
封
closing, seal
Grade 8JLPT 2
苦
feel bitter, hardship, scowl, suffering, trial, worry
Grade 3JLPT 3
坊
boy, priest, priest's residence
Grade 8JLPT N/A
寺
Buddhist temple
Grade 2JLPT 2
芸
acting, art, craft, performance, stunt, technique, trick
Grade 4JLPT 2
華
flower, gay, gorgeous, luster, ostentatious, petal, shine, showy, splendor
Grade 8JLPT 1
葉
blade, counter for flat things, fragment, leaf, lobe, needle, piece, plane, spear
Grade 3JLPT 3
拷
beat, torture
Grade 8JLPT 1