Kanji1 / 12
創 kanji
genesis, wound, injury, hurt, start, originate
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ソウショウ
Kun readings
つくるはじめるきずけずしける
Variant forms
刅戧Words with 創
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —創元社Sogensha, Inc. (publisher)
- —創樹社Soujusha; Sohjusha
- —天地創造creation (of the universe); the Creation
- —満身創痍having wounds all over one's body; being wounded all over; receiving a drubbing; being subjected to a barrage of criticism
- —盲管銃創lodged-bullet wound
- —貫通銃創piercing bullet wound
- —雇用創出job creation
- —創作料理creative cookery; creative cuisine
- —創意工夫ingenuity; inventiveness; creative originality
- —創業守成starting an enterprise and (or) carrying it to final success
- —創作意欲will (urge) to create; creative urge; appetite for writing
- —創氏改名policy that forced Koreans under Japanese rule to adopt Japanese names (1939; abolished in 1945)
- —心身創痍being wounded in mind and body
- —創造科学creation science
- —二次創作derivative work (usu. unauthorized and produced by fans, e.g. dōjinshi, fanfiction)
- —創世神話creation myth
- —創造神話creation myth
- —貨幣創出money creation
- —地方創生countryside revitalisation (revitalization)
- —創作版画sōsaku-hanga (woodblock printing art movement); creative prints