Kanji1 / 9
独 kanji
single, alone, spontaneously, Germany
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ドクトク
Kun readings
ひとり
Variant forms
獨Words with 独
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —独立国Popularindependent state; independent nation
- —東独East Germany (1949-1990)
- —独居living alone; solitude; solitary life
- —独吟vocal solo; solo recitation (of traditional poetry, noh verse, etc.)
- —独国Germany
- —独酌drinking alone; solitary drinking
- —独習self-study; self-teaching
- —独善self-righteousness; self-justified
- —日独Japan and Germany; Japanese-German
- —反独anti-German
- —和独Japanese-German (e.g. dictionary)
- —独白monologue; soliloquy; talking to oneself
- —独力one's own effort
- —独文German literature; German sentence
- —独仏Germany and France; German-French
- —独行going alone; travelling alone; solitary journey; self-reliance; acting independently; doing by oneself
- —独泳swimming by oneself; swimming far ahead of the other swimmers (in a race)
- —独往going on one's own or one's own way
- —独英Germany and the United Kingdom; German-British; German-English
- —独和German-Japanese