Kanji1 / 12
極 kanji
extreme, pole, extremely, very, highly, most, end, settlement, conclusion, highest rank
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
キョクゴク
Kun readings
きわめるきわまるきわまりきわみきめる-ぎめきまる
Words with 極
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —極光northern or southern lights; aurora borealis or australis
- —極言being frank; going so far as to say
- —極洋polar seas
- —極流polar current
- —極量maximum dose
- —負極anode; negative pole; negative electrode
- —極域polar region
- —正極cathode; positive pole; positive electrode
- —極相climax
- —極板pole plate; polar plate
- —極体polar body (cell structure within the ovum)
- —太極taiji (in Chinese philosophy, the principle that embodies all potential things, incl. time and space)
- —無極limitless; apolar; limitlessness of taiji
- —一極monopole; singular pole; unipole
- —多極multipolar
- —極渦polar vortex; polar cell
- —極盛climax; peak
- —極夜polar night
- —双極having two poles; bipolar
- —単極single pole; single electrode