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
- —常談normal conversation; joke
- —常灯continuously burning light (e.g. at a Buddhist altar); roadside lamp that stays lit all night
- —常座upstage right (on a noh stage)
- —常着everyday clothes
- —常衣everyday clothes; ordinary clothes; casual wear
- —常在resident; indigenous; always existing
- —常規standard; common standard; standard rule; standard way of doing; established usage
- —常考isn't it obvious?; that's common sense
- —常見eternalism (belief in permanence of things); sassatavada
- —常盆established gambler's den; gambler's den in a fixed location
- —常圧normal pressure; ordinary pressure; normobaric
- —常居habitually being (in a place); place one usually is
- —常居living room; sitting room
- —健常non-disabled; having no physical or mental disability; able-bodied
- —常傭regular employment; continuous employment; regularly employed worker; regular employee
- —経常費current expenses; operating costs
- —常習者habitual offender; addict
- —常習犯habitual criminal; recidivist; recidivism; habitual criminal activity
- —常分数proper fraction
- —常用癖addiction