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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
- —三損友three kinds of harmful friends: hypocritical, sycophantic, and glib-talking ones
- —郷友会social organisation for people originating from the same town, village, or island who live in an urban center far from home (predominantly used by people from Okinawa)
- —大親友best friend; very close friend
- —友人宅friend's house; home of a friend
- —京友禅Kyoyuzen dyeing; Kyoto printed silk
- —侠友会Kyoyukai (Hyogo-based yakuza syndicate)
- —政友会Friends of Constitutional Government Party (1900-1940)
- —交友関係one's relationships; people one knows; circle of friends
- —善隣友好neighbourly friendship; neighborly friendship
- —友誼国家friendly nation
- —友軍部隊friendly troops
- —友好条約treaty of friendship
- —友好関係(establish) friendly (cordial) relations (with, between); (form) friendship (e.g. with a nation)
- —知己朋友intimate friends and acquaintances
- —益者三友three kinds of beneficial friends: straightforward, sincere, and well-informed ones
- —不良交友getting mixed up with the wrong people; getting into bad company
- —楽友協会philharmonic society; society of the friends of music
- —読書尚友by reading books you can count the wise philosophers of the past as friends
- —友人価格mate's rate; preferential rate of payment offered to a friend
- —損者三友three kinds of harmful friends: hypocritical, sycophantic, and glib-talking ones