Kanji1 / 12
補 kanji
supplement, supply, make good, offset, compensate, assistant, learner
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ホ
Kun readings
おぎなう
Words with 補
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —補完医療complementary therapy; complementary medicine; alternative medicine
- —亡羊補牢locking the barn door after the horse has bolted; doing something too late; mending the pen after the sheep are lost
- —補助貨幣subsidiary coin; subsidiary money
- —補助言語auxiliary language
- —目的補語object complement; objective complement
- —補助活用classical form of i-adjective inflection formed by contraction of the "ku" adverbial form with the classical verb "ari" ("aru")
- —補助通貨fractional currency (e.g. cents, pence)
- —業務補助internship (of a certified public accountant)
- —補助作用supplementary action
- —補習授業supplementary lessons
- —戦後補償postwar reparations
- —変換候補conversion candidate (in an input method editor)
- —入力補助input assistance; input help; typing aid
- —栄養補給dietary supplement; nutritional supplementation
- —万年補欠benchwarmer
- —課長補佐assistant section manager; assistant section chief
- —補欠合格provisional admission; waitlisted acceptance; conditional acceptance
- —補給本部Air Material Command
- —公認候補者official candidate
- —相補性原理complementarity