Kanji1 / 9
促 kanji
stimulate, urge, press, demand, incite
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ソク
Kun readings
うながす
Words with 促
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2催促Popularpressing; urging; demanding; demand
- N1促進Popularpromotion; acceleration; encouragement; facilitation; spurring on
- —促成Popularpromotion of growth
- —督促Popularurge; demand; importunity
- —販促Popularsales promotion
- —促音geminate consonant (small "tsu" in Japanese)
- —促迫growing urgent; becoming distressful
- —催促状dun; letter requesting money, etc.
- —促進剤accelerant; stimulant
- —居催促refusal to leave
- —督促状demand note; dunning letter (note)
- —促音便nasal sound change (generation of geminate consonant, primarily a geminate 't' from vowel stems ending in 'i')
- —要督促necessary reminder
- —促進率acceleration ratio
- —促進薬accelerating agent; stimulating agent; accelerant
- —促成栽培forcing (plants, vegetables, etc.); artificially hastening the growth of plants (by controlling heat, light, etc.)
- —販売促進sales promotion
- —入力促進prompt
- —成長促進growth promotant
- —矢の催促strongly and repeatedly urging (demanding, requesting, pressing)