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
- —整理体操cooling down (exercises)
- —金融操作market manipulation; monetary operation
- —自動操縦automatic pilot; autopilot; automatic control
- —操作ミスerror (in the operation of a machine, vehicle, etc.); operation mistake; operational error
- —貞操堅固chaste (usu. to one's husband); faithful
- —為替操作currency intervention; foreign exchange market intervention; currency manipulation
- —体操座りsitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class)
- —情報操作manipulation of information; spin
- —操舵装置steering gear (ship)
- —操作手順operating procedure
- —操縦系統flight control system
- —自動操舵self-steering (boat); automatic steering
- —印象操作media manipulation
- —違法操業illegal fishing
- —市場操作market manipulation
- —体操選手gymnast
- —貞操蹂躙rape; ravishment; violation
- —自転車操業barely keeping a business going (analogy that a bicycle falls over when its wheels cease rotating)
- —遺伝子操作gene manipulation
- —ラジオ体操radio calisthenics