Kanji1 / 9
点 kanji
spot, point, mark, speck, decimal point
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
テン
Kun readings
つけるつくたてるさすとぼすともすぼち
Variant forms
點Words with 点
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —濁点dakuten; diacritic used with kana that turns an unvoiced consonant into a voiced consonant
- —中点middle point; median point; middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid-character height; interpoint (interword separation)
- —点画dots and strokes of a kanji character
- —点画stippling
- —点眼dropping medicine in the eyes
- —点景persons or animals added to a picture; incidental details of a picture
- —点光spotlight
- —点示pointing out
- —点者critic of haiku poetry
- —点水water jug; pitcher
- —点茶preparing powdered tea (at a tea ceremony)
- —点灯lighting (a lamp); turning on a light
- —点頭nodding
- —点播sowing spaced seeds
- —点描sketching; pointillism; stippling
- —点睛adding eyes and other finishing touches to an animal painting
- —読点comma
- —斑点(scattered) spots; specks; speckles
- —批点correction marks
- —百点hundred points; perfect mark