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
- —常識家sensible person
- —常識人person of common sense; common sense man
- —正常位missionary (sex) position
- —定常波standing wave; stationary wave
- —平常心one's self-possession; one's presence of mind
- —日常品everyday necessities; daily necessities
- —常用外(kanji) not in the jōyō list
- —不正常anomaly
- —超常的supernatural (e.g. psychic phenomena and such); paranormal
- —正常値normal value; normal level
- —非常食emergency food; emergency rations
- —正常財normal goods (i.e. goods for which demand increases when consumer's income increases)
- —異常性abnormality
- —常不軽Sadaparibhuta (bodhisattva)
- —無常鳥lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
- —常磁性paramagnetism
- —常香盤incense clock (marks time with a smouldering train of incense)
- —非日常the extraordinary; the unusual; the unexpected
- —定常性being stationary (of a process)
- —非常駐transient