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
- —常雇regular employment; full-time employment; regular employee; full-time employee; permanent employee
- —常鶲Daurian redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus)
- —無常観sense of the vanity of life; perception of the evanescence of life
- —常夜燈light that stays on all night; lamp that is kept burning all night; nightlight
- —常とうconventional; commonplace; trite; hackneyed
- —常燈明continuously burning light (e.g. at a Buddhist altar)
- —諸業無常all things must pass; all worldly things are impermanent
- —常とう句conventional phrase; stock phrase; cliché
- —常住座臥at all times; day in, day out; constantly; always
- —常識外れunconventional; eccentric; offbeat; aberrant; outlandish; crazy
- —平常どおりas usual; as normal
- —常とう手段one's habitual practice; usual measure; old trick
- —非常持出袋emergency bag; survival kit
- —尋常性痤瘡acne vulgaris; acne
- —尋常性座瘡acne vulgaris; acne
- —通常どおりas usual
- —常識やぶりunconventional; unusual; outside-the-box
- —非常持出し袋emergency bag; survival kit
- —非常救済手続きextraordinary remedial procedure; extraordinary relief procedure
- —西部戦線異常なしAll Quiet on the Western Front (1929 book; 1930, 1979, and 2022 film adaptations)