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友 kanji
friend
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ユウ
Kun readings
とも
Words with 友
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —損友bad friend; friend with disadvantages
- —争友friend who gives frank advice; critical friend
- —心友bosom friend; intimate friend; close friend
- —政友political friend; friend with the same political views
- —党友fellow party member; friend of the party; party supporter; party sympathizer
- —老友old friend; crony
- —西友Seiyū; Seiyu corporation
- —友好国friendly nation
- —友好的friendly; amicable
- —友禅染type of dyeing method or pattern; silk printed by the Yuzen process
- —校友会alumni association
- —学友会students' association; alumni association
- —岳友会mountaineering club
- —友人間among one's friends
- —友愛会fraternal association; friendship society; fraternity
- —霊友会Reiyukai (Buddhist sect founded in 1919 as an offshoot of Nichiren Buddhism)
- —友禅菊Tartarian aster (Aster Novi-Belgii)
- —猟友会hunting club
- —非友好unfriendly
- —三益友three kinds of beneficial friends: straightforward, sincere, and well-informed ones