Kanji1 / 7
我 kanji
ego, I, selfish, our, oneself
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ガ
Kun readings
われわわが-わが-
Words with 我
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —他我other self; other mind; alter ego
- —大我absolute ego
- —没我的self-effacing; selfless
- —唯我論solipsism (phil.)
- —似我蜂red-banded sand wasp (Ammophila sabulosa); thread-waisted wasp (any wasp of family Sphecidae, incl. digger wasps and mud daubers)
- —我慢汁pre-ejaculate; pre-ejaculatory fluid; Cowper's fluid; pre-cum
- —大怪我serious injury
- —我鳴るto yell; to shout; to scream; to bawl
- —超自我superego
- —独我論solipsism
- —曾我派Soga school of Japanese painting
- —我を出すto insist on one's own ideas
- —我を折るto concede a point; to yield; to give in
- —我を張るto insist on one's own ideas
- —我を通すto insist on one's own ideas; to have one's own way
- —我田引水seeking one's own interests; straining (the interpretation or argument) to suit one's own interests; drawing water for one's own field
- —我武者羅reckless; daredevil; frantic; foolhardy
- —主我主義egoism; love of self
- —やせ我慢enduring something out of pride; putting up with it; grinning and bearing it
- —無我夢中losing oneself (in); being absorbed (in); forgetting oneself