Kanji1 / 9
皇 kanji
emperor
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
コウオウ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 皇
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —皇后宮empress's residence; empress
- —女教皇High Priestess (Tarot card); Popess
- —皇太孫eldest grandson of an Emperor in the line of descent
- —小皇帝little emperor; spoilt only child (in China)
- —旧皇族Old Imperial Family; former Imperial family; eleven former houses of the Imperial Family stripped of membership in 1947
- —上皇后retired empress; ex-empress; former empress; empress emerita
- —皇祖考deceased grandfather of the emperor
- —皇祖妣deceased grandmother of the emperor
- —教皇領(former) Papal States; Vatican City
- —皇后陛下Her Majesty the Empress
- —皇宮警察the Imperial Guards
- —皇室典範Imperial House Act
- —皇位継承(Japanese) imperial succession
- —太皇太后Grand Empress Dowager
- —皇大神宮Kōtai Shrine (main shrine of the Inner Ise Shrine)
- —皇室神道Imperial Household Shinto
- —三皇五帝Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors (mythological rulers of ancient China)
- —皇漢医学traditional Chinese medicine
- —対立教皇antipope
- —皇祖皇宗ancestors of the Imperial Family