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
- —死点dead point
- —圏点emphasis mark (used in Japanese text in a way similar to underlining)
- —レ点mark indicating that the order of the adjacent characters is to be reversed (for reading kanbun in Japanese word order); check mark; tick mark
- —庵点part alternation mark (symbol indicating the following words are taken from a song or that the person saying the words is singing); Unicode U+303D symbol
- —暗点scotoma; scotomatous
- —配点allotment (allocation) of marks
- —点着spot application; dispensing a drop or spot of something
- —赤点failing mark (e.g. in exam)
- —至点solstitial point
- —近点near point (closest point at which an object can be brought into focus by the eye); periapsis
- —遠点far point (farthest point at which an object can be brought into focus by the eye); apoapsis
- —点鐘ships' bell
- —端点anchor; endpoint node; peripheral node
- —網点halftone dot; halftone screen
- —溶点melting point
- —始点point of departure; initial point; starting point
- —輝点light spot (e.g. a blip on radar); luminous dot; always-on pixel (as a defect in LCD displays); stuck pixel
- —涙点lachrymal punctum (lacrimal, lacrymal); lacrimal point
- —点本book with reading aids (such as kana or punctuation marks)
- —無点kanji without kanbun assistance markings; poetry, haiku, etc. without comments or corrections; meaningless; incomprehensible