丸

round, full (month), perfection, -ship, pills, make round, roll up, curl up, seduce, explain away

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

ガン

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

まるまる.いまる.める

Nanori (名乗り)

まわわに

Stroke Order

3 / 3

Information

Grade:2

Strokes:3

JLPT:N2

Frequency:542

Vocabulary

ガン

Word	Reading	Meaning
一丸	イチガン	one lump; one body; one group
弾丸	ダンガン	bullet; shot; shell
丸剤	ガンザイ	pill
丸薬	ガンヤク	pill
睾丸	コウガン	testicle; testicles; testes

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
丸	まる	circle; entirety; whole; full; complete; money; dough; moola; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle; suffix for ship names; suffix for names of people (esp. infants); suffix for names of swords, armour, musical instruments, etc.; suffix for names of dogs, horses, etc.
丸	マル	circle; entirety; whole; full; complete; money; dough; moola; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle; suffix for ship names; suffix for names of people (esp. infants); suffix for names of swords, armour, musical instruments, etc.; suffix for names of dogs, horses, etc.
丸っきり	まるっきり	completely; absolutely; totally; (not) at all
丸で	まるで	as if; as though; just like; much as; exactly like; as it were; (not) at all; (not) in the slightest; (not) a bit; really; completely; entirely; wholly; truly; quite
丸み	まるみ	roundness; rotundity; mellowness; maturity

Visually Similar Kanji

These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

ladle, one tenth of a go, dip

commonplace, ordinary, mediocre

public, prince, official, governmental

Buddha, the dead, France

plump, thick, big around

rust-colored, red, red lead, pills, sincerity

negative, non-, bad, ugly, clumsy