Kanji1 / 2
二 kanji
two, two radical (no. 7)
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 2
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
ニジ
Kun readings
ふたふたつふたたび
Variant forms
弍Words with 二
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —武士に二言無しa samurai never goes back on his word
- —二の句がつげないto be at a loss for words; to be speechless; to be dumbfounded; to be struck dumb
- —アデノシン二燐酸adenosine diphosphate; ADP
- —二進化十進コードbinary-coded decimal code
- —二進化十進表示法binary-coded decimal representation
- —第二ヴァイオリンsecond violin; second violinist
- —武士に二言は無いa samurai never goes back on his word
- —一目も二目もおくto take off one's hat to a person; to acknowledge another's superiority
- —二十一カ条の要求Twenty-One Demands (made by Japan on China in 1915)
- —二足のわらじをはくto be engaged in two trades at the same time; to have two irons in the fire; to wear two pairs of straw sandals
- —二束のわらじを履くto be engaged in two trades at the same time; to have two irons in the fire; to wear two pairs of straw sandals
- —若いときは二度ないyou are only young once; youth doesn't come twice; gather ye rosebuds while ye may
- —一風も二風も変ったrather eccentric; more than a little unconventional; quite out of the ordinary
- —二風も三風も変ったvery eccentric; thoroughly unconventional; quite out of the ordinary
- —二度ある事は三度あるwhat happens twice will happen thrice
- —日経二二五オプションNikkei 225 option
- —第二次オイルショックsecond oil crisis (1979)
- —一風も二風もかわったrather eccentric; more than a little unconventional; quite out of the ordinary
- —ルマン二十四時間レース24 Hours of Le Mans; Le Mans 24-Hour Race
- —二兎を追う者は一兎をも獲ずif you run after two hares you will catch neither