Dark Mode

Main Menu

Dictionary

Dictionary search
Lists and tags
User lists

Kanji

Kanji search
Radical list
Search by radical
Search by drawing

Forum
Hiragana table
Katakana table

Other

Attributions
Settings
Privacy policy
Legal terms
FAQ
Contact us

Dictionary
Kanji
More

Search dictionary
Word dictionary
Kanji dictionary
Search languages
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇬🇧 English
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇳🇱 Dutch
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇫🇷 French
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇩🇪 German
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇭🇺 Hungarian
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇷🇺 Russian
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇸🇮 Slovenian
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇪🇸 Spanish
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇸🇪 Swedish
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇬🇧 English
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇫🇷 French
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇵🇹 Portuguese
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇪🇸 Spanish

Search dictionary
Word dictionary
Kanji dictionary
Search languages
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇬🇧 English
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇳🇱 Dutch
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇫🇷 French
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇩🇪 German
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇭🇺 Hungarian
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇷🇺 Russian
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇸🇮 Slovenian
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇪🇸 Spanish
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇸🇪 Swedish
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇬🇧 English
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇫🇷 French
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇵🇹 Portuguese
🇯🇵 Japanese and 🇪🇸 Spanish

Dictionary

Dictionary search
Lists and tags
User lists

Kanji

Kanji search
Radical list
Search by radical
Search by drawing

Forum
Hiragana table
Katakana table

Forum

カナカナ

Create new list

rarely used kanji formusually written using kana aloneonomatopoeic or mimetic wordnounnoun (generic)

Tags help

Tags are keywords defining a specific characteristic of the word. Each one may refer to things like:

Dialect from a specific region of Japan.
Field of application like anatomy-related words, business-related words, etc.
Information regarding the kanji, like irregular writing, use of outdated characters, etc.
Miscellaneous information about the word, like if it's a colloquialism, a rare word, a surname, etc.
Grammar information about the word, like the part of speech.
JLPT level of the word.

A tag may be specific to the whole word or just to a particular reading or meaning. If that's the case, it will be specified in its section.

A list of all the available tags can be found in the tags section.

rarely used kanji form: rarely used kanji form #rK
usually written using kana alone: Words and expressions which are always written using hiragana or katakana. #uk
onomatopoeic or mimetic word: Words that phonetically imitate, resemble or suggest the source of the sound that it describes. #on-mim
noun: noun (common) (futsuumeishi) #n
noun (generic): All kinds of Japanese nouns #noun

Other forms:

蜩

rarely used kanji form

カナカナ

Dictionary
Definition of カナカナ

Reading

Reading help

The Japanese language has three different alphabets:

Kanji: Ideographic alphabet of Chinese origin. Every character represents an idea or concept.
Hiragana: Phonetic alphabet used mostly in combination with kanji.
Katakana: Phonetic alphabet used to represent foreign words, places, onomatopoeias, etc.

If the word is represented in kanji, the reading section shows how this word is read.

Words having multiple readings will be ordered by popularity.

Furigana

Furigana are the smaller kana characters, printed over the kanji to indicate their pronunciation. If the word has one or more kanji characters, its furigana will be written on top of them.

Transliteration and pitch accent

There is also the transliteration written in kana (hiragana or katakana) and romaji (using the Hepburn method).

The transliteration can also contain the pitch accent representation for the pronunciation of this word. In some cases, the same word may have different pitch accents, and sometimes the pitch accent depends on the part of speech of the word. If that's the case, it will be represented beside it.

Audio

Words indicated by the symbol have computer-generated audio that can be listened to by clicking on it.

カナカナ
Loading...
カナカナ
kanakana

Meaning

Translation help

Translation of the selected word to several languages.

Different meanings

A word can have one or different meanings. For each meaning, one or more equivalents of the Japanese word will be presented in English or other languages.

In the case of having multiple meanings, they will be ordered by popularity.

References

There may also be links to similar, related or antonym words.

Other languages

English is the main language for the translations, but some words will also be available in other languages: Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, or Swedish.

The quality of these translations may vary. In case of discrepancies the English translation will prevail.