Kanji1 / 16
操 kanji
maneuver, manipulate, operate, steer, chastity, virginity, fidelity
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ソウサン
Kun readings
みさおあやつる
Variant forms
撡Words with 操
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —操作者operator
- —子操作child-operation
- —親操作parent-operation
- —操作卓(operator) console
- —操作棒stick with a hook, claw or other handling mechanism
- —操体法form of muscular or movement therapy developed by Keizo Hashimoto
- —操舵輪steered wheel (e.g. at the front of a car); steering wheel
- —組体操coordinated group gymnastics (in which teams form pyramids or other shapes)
- —操縦法method of manipulating; management method; puppeteering
- —操作法method of operation; operating procedure
- —操縦室cockpit; control cabin; flight compartment; pilot compartment; control room
- —操縦輪control wheel; yoke
- —誤操作incorrect operation; wrong handling
- —操縦者pilot (of an aircraft, spacecraft, etc.); operator (of a machine, drone, etc.); steersman; helmsman
- —遠隔操作remote control; remote operation
- —交代操業working in shifts
- —操業短縮curtailment of operations
- —貞操観念sense of virtue
- —美容体操calisthenics; callisthenics
- —兵式体操military drill