友
Tags
- Kyōiku kanji
- Kanji that Japanese students should learn in elementary school #kyoiku
- Jōyō kanji
- Kanji considered of common use by the Japanese Ministry of Education #joyo
- 2nd grade kanji
- Kanji learned in second grade (elementary school) #grade-2
- 4 strokes
- Kanji with 4 strokes #strokes-4
- JLPT N5 kanji
- JLPT N5 kanji: Basic Level #jlpt5k
Reading
- On'yomi
- ユウ
- Kun'yomi
- とも
- Nanori
- うどゆ
- Chinese (pinyin)
- you3
- Korean (hangul)
- 우
- Korean (romanized)
- u
- Vietnamese
- Hữu
- Kantenji (braille kanji)
- ⠵⡬
Meaning
- friend
- ami
- amigo
- amigo, compañero
Stroke order
Components in kanji 友
Similar kanji
Homonyms
Popular words containing this kanji
- friend
- friendship
- friend, companion, comrade, pal
- friend, companion
- friendship, fellowship, camaraderie
Extended information
Frequency 622
KANJIDIC Project
2733 "Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by Andrew Nelson (now published as the "Classic" Nelson)
858 "The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by John Haig
672 "New Japanese-English Character Dictionary", by Jack Halpern
2952 "Kanji Learners Dictionary" (Kodansha) by Jack Halpern
1873 "Remembering The Kanji" by James Heisig
704 "A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage" (Gakken)
543 "Japanese Names", by P.G. O'Neill
70 "Essential Kanji" by .GP. O'Neill
158 "Daikanwajiten" by Morohashi
3119:2:685 "A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters" by Kenneth G. Henshall
214 "Kanji and Kana" by Spahn and Hadamitzky
264 "Kanji and Kana" by Spahn and Hadamitzky (2011 edition)
264 "A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese" by Florence Sakade
145 Japanese Kanji Flashcards, by Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki (Series 1)
30 "A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese" 3rd edition, by Henshall, Seeley and De Groot
234 Tuttle Kanji Cards, by Alexander Kask
104 "The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power" by Dale Crowley
451 "Kanji in Context" by Nishiguchi and Kono
79 "Japanese For Busy People" vols I-III, published by the AJLT. The codes are the
volume.chapter
2.18 The "Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide"
268 Codes from Yves Maniette's "Les Kanjis dans la tete" French adaptation of Heisig
711 "Remembering The Kanji, 6th Ed." by James Heisig
760 "Kodansha Kanji Dictionary", (2nd Ed. of the NJECD) by Jack Halpern
3670 "Kanji Learners Dictionary" (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) by Jack Halpern
2553
Halpern's SKIP (System of Kanji Indexing by Patterns) code
3-2-2 The descriptor codes for The Kanji Dictionary (Tuttle1996) by Spahn and Hadamitzky
2h2.3 The "Four Corner" code for the kanji. This is a code invented by Wang Chen in 1928
4004.7 The codes developed by the late Father Joseph De Roo, and published in his book "2001 Kanji" (Bonjinsha)
1467
JIS X 0208-1997 - kuten coding
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1-45-07 Decimal representation of the UTF16 character
21451