Kanji1 / 12
焦 kanji
char, hurry, impatient, irritate, burn, scorch, singe
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Secondary school
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On readings
ショウ
Kun readings
こげるこがすこがれるあせるじれるじらす
Words with 焦
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2焦点Popularfocus; focal point; focus (of attention, a discussion, etc.); point at issue; central point; focus
- —焦燥Popularimpatience; irritation; frustration; fretfulness
- —焦慮impatience; worry
- —焦土scorched earth
- —焦心impatience; anxiety
- —焦眉emergency; urgency; imminence
- —焦熱scorching heat
- —三焦san jiao (triple heater; functional metabolic organ in Chinese medicine)
- —中焦middle jiao (in traditional Chinese medicine); middle burner
- —上焦upper jiao (in traditional Chinese medicine); upper burner
- —下焦lower jiao (in traditional Chinese medicine); lower burner
- —合焦being in focus; bringing into focus
- —焦電気pyroelectricity
- —共焦点confocal (optics)
- —焦燥感irritability; feeling of impatience; sense of uneasiness
- —単焦点monofocal; fixed focal length; single focus
- —同焦点parfocal (e.g. lens)
- —軟焦点soft focus (e.g. lens)
- —三重焦点trifocal
- —焦熱地獄burning hell; inferno