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
- —女性候補female candidate
- —補完医学complementary medicine
- —国庫補助government subsidy; state aid; state assistance
- —有力候補major contender; strong (leading) candidate; front runner
- —検索候補search results
- —補助定理lemma
- —増補改訂revising (and supplementing)
- —採長補短compensating for one's shortcomings by incorporating others' strong points
- —直線補間linear interpolation; straight-line interpolation
- —刺客候補candidate fielded by a political party to oust an incumbent of the same party
- —補助単位prefixed unit of measurement (i.e. millimeter, kilogram, etc.); supplementary SI unit (radian and steradian)
- —補償装置compensator; compensating device
- —補助椅子auxiliary seat; booster seat; baby seat
- —補足情報supplementary information
- —キー候補candidate key
- —線形補間linear interpolation
- —相補演算complementary operation
- —補完規則ELSE-rule
- —補助記憶external storage; auxiliary storage
- —補助装置auxiliary device; auxiliary equipment