Kanji1 / 11
現 kanji
present, existing, actual
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ゲン
Kun readings
あらわれるあらわすうつつうつつ
Words with 現
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —現国modern Japanese (esp. as a school subject)
- —現法local subsidiary
- —現社modern society
- —現姓one's current family name; woman's family name after she married
- —現時now; the present time; the present era
- —化現manifesting in a bodily form (of a god or Buddha); incarnation; avatar
- —現給current salary; present salary
- —現身living person; mortal; this physical body; one's current body; flesh and blood; incarnation (of a Buddha or bodhisattva); earthly manifestation; this world; this life; the present world
- —現界manifestation (in the physical world); materialization; incarnation; appearing (of a spirit, deity, etc.); this world; the physical world; the present world
- —現在地present location; current location; "you are here" (on map)
- —現時代the present era
- —現代詩modern poetry
- —現代人modern person; people of today
- —現ずるto appear; to reveal; to show
- —現ナマcold cash; hard cash
- —非現業clerical work
- —現代化modernization; modernisation
- —現代語modern language; contemporary language; living language; modern Japanese; Japanese as spoken since the Meiji period or alternatively, since the end of World War II
- —現在高amount on hand
- —現行法existing law; existing laws; laws in force