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
- —独奏曲solo (musical work)
- —英仏独Britain, France and Germany
- —独ソ戦Russo-German War (1941-1945)
- —孤独死dying alone (esp. of someone who lives alone and dies of natural causes at home without anyone knowing); solitary death
- —独歩高isolated gain in a slow or declining market (stock, currency, etc.)
- —独歩安isolated fall of a security or currency in an otherwise strong market
- —独我論solipsism
- —独自色uniqueness; individuality
- —単独室solitary cell; solitary confinement cell; isolation cell
- —単独犯lone criminal; sole perpetrator; crime carried out by one person
- —独立系independent; unaffiliated; self-funding
- —独立型freestanding; stand-alone
- —独立党Independence Party; Independent Party
- —独裁制dictatorship
- —独眼竜one-eyed hero
- —半独占semi-monopoly; quasi-monopoly
- —独身税single person tax; bachelor tax
- —恐独病Germanophobia
- —単独行solo hiking; solo climbing; solo travel
- —独墺伊Germany, Austria and Italy; Triple Alliance (1882)