Kanji1 / 11
常 kanji
usual, ordinary, normal, common, regular, continually, always, long-lasting
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ジョウ
Kun readings
つねとこ-
Words with 常
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —通常選挙regular election (triennial election of half of the House of Councillors)
- —非日常的extraordinary; unusual; strange; unexpected
- —異常状態anomalous condition
- —異常切断abnormal termination (of a call, e.g.)
- —通常表示lowlight
- —通常郵便ordinary mail; PD PR
- —常勤講師(full-time) lecturer
- —常識哲学philosophy of common sense
- —異常光線extraordinary ray
- —常寂光土land of eternally tranquil light (highest realm in Tendai Buddhism)
- —常識学派(Scottish) School of Common Sense
- —常緑高木tall, evergreen tree
- —電源異常power failure
- —色覚異常color vision deficiency; colour vision deficiency; CVD; color blindness; colour blindness
- —通常葉書regular postcard; ordinary postcard
- —胎位異常malpresentation
- —通常ならusually; under usual circumstances
- —経常勘定current account
- —常人逮捕citizen's arrest
- —常在戦場always conducting oneself as though one were on a battlefield; being combat ready at all times (of a person)