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
- —明治期Meiji period (1868-1912)
- —天明調style of haikai or haiku from the Tenmei era (based on a return to the style of Basho); style of comical tanka from the Tenmei era (popularized by Oota Nampo)
- —不明者missing person
- —透明質hyaloplasm
- —透明帯zona pellucida
- —文明人civilized person; civilized people
- —透明感feeling of transparency; sense of translucence
- —説明会information session; briefing; explanatory meeting
- —説明的explanatory; expository; elucidatory
- —未解明unexplained; unsolved; unclear
- —発明王master inventor; king of inventors (e.g. Edison)
- —不明点unclear point; unclear points
- —清明祭tomb sweeping festival (Okinawa, April 4 or 5)
- —説明者briefer; elucidator; exponent; expositor; explainer
- —再発明reinvention
- —非自明nontrivial (e.g. solution); non-obvious
- —金明竹Castillon bamboo (cultivar of Japanese timber bamboo, Phyllostachys bambusoides)
- —明所視photopic vision; daylight vision; photopia
- —証明力credibility; probative value; power of evidence on a judge's mind
- —光明石kōmeiseki; kōmei stone; slightly radioactive stone used in onsens, traditional medicine, etc.