Kanji1 / 8
明 kanji
bright, light
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
メイミョウミン
Kun readings
あかりあかるいあかるむあからむあきらかあける-あけあくあくるあかす
Variant forms
朙Words with 明
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —早明戦Waseda-Meiji (baseball) game
- —文明館the Bunmeikan Theater
- —立明戦Rikkyo-Meiji (baseball) game
- —発明者inventor
- —明細表itemized account; itemised account
- —照明灯light used for brightly lighting up a plaza, building, etc.
- —声明文proclamation; statement
- —弁明書letter of explanation; written explanation
- —秋明菊Japanese anemone; Anemone hupehensis var. japonica
- —陽明学Yangmingism (school of neo-Confucianism based on the teachings of Wang Yangming); School of Mind
- —文明史history of civilization
- —明治節Emperor Meiji's birthday (November 3; national holiday held from 1927 to 1948)
- —自明解trivial solution
- —証明証user certificate; certificate
- —明確化clarification; definition
- —神明社(post-Heian) shrine dedicated to Amaterasu
- —神明造style of shrine architecture based on that of Ise Jingu
- —本発明present invention
- —石決明powdered abalone shell (used in Chinese medicine)
- —明順応light adaptation