Kanji1 / 7
呉 kanji
give, do something for, kingdom of Wu
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ゴ
Kun readings
くれるくれ
Variant forms
吴Words with 呉
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —呉服Popularcloth (for Japanese clothes); kimono fabrics; textile; drapery; dry goods; piece goods; silk fabrics
- —呉越同舟Popularbitter enemies in the same boat; rivals finding themselves together by chance; strange bedfellows
- —呉Wu (region in China, south of the lower Yangtze); Wu (kingdom in China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms era; 902-937 CE); Southern Wu; Wu (kingdom in China during the Three Kingdoms era; 222-280 CE); Eastern Wu; Sun Wu; Wu (kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn era; 11th century-473 BCE)
- —呉越Wu and Yue (two rival states in ancient China)
- —呉音go-on; Wu reading; on reading of a kanji based on 5th and 6th century Chinese
- —呉須gosu porcelain; asbolite; zaffer
- —呉語Wu Chinese (language); Shanghainese
- —呉牛water buffalo
- —呉汁gojiru; miso soup with ground soybeans
- —呉服屋kimono fabrics shop; draper
- —呉服商dry-goods dealer
- —呉服店kimono fabrics shop; draper's shop
- —呉服物piece; dry-goods; piece goods
- —呉服尺fabric shaku (approx. 36.4 cm)
- —呉茱萸Tetradium ruticarpum (species of deciduous trees)
- —呉下の阿蒙person who has made no progress; someone who remains as ignorant as before
- —呉牛月に喘ぐto be overanxious; to worry needlessly
- —呉下の阿蒙に非ずto no longer be the same old person; to have made remarkable progress; to have improved significantly (through study)
- —呉go; soy beans soaked and mashed to a creamy paste (ingredient of tofu and soy milk)
- —呉蓙rush mat; matting; mat