Kanji1 / 12
葉 kanji
leaf, plane, lobe, needle, blade, spear, counter for flat things, fragment, piece
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ヨウ
Kun readings
は
Words with 葉
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —落葉広葉樹林deciduous broad-leaved forest
- —真正双子葉類eudicots; eudicotyledons
- —脳下垂体前葉anterior pituitary; pars distalis; adenohypophysis
- —常緑広葉樹林evergreen broad-leaved forest
- —奇数羽状複葉imparipinnate compound leaf; odd-pinnate compound leaf
- —偶数羽状複葉paripinnate compound leaf; even-pinnate compound leaf
- —常葉短期大学Jōyō Junior College
- —前頭葉白質切截術lobotomy; leucotomy; frontal lobotomy; frontal leucotomy
- —脳下垂体前葉ホルモンadenohypophyseal hormone
- —脳下垂体後葉ホルモンneurohypophyseal hormone
- —常葉学園富士短期大学Jōyōgakuenfuji Junior College
- —一葉落ちて天下の秋を知るa straw will show which way the wind blows; a falling leaf shows that autumn has come
- —薄葉thin Japanese paper (esp. vellum paper); Japanese tissue
- —包葉bract
- —厚葉thick Japanese paper (esp. vellum paper)
- —唄葉palm-leaf manuscript
- —萬葉集Man'yōshū (8th century anthology of Japanese poetry)
- —葉蠟石pyrophyllite
- —万葉がなman'yōgana; early Japanese syllabary of Chinese characters used phonetically
- —葉ろう石pyrophyllite