Kanji1 / 17
講 kanji
lecture, club, association
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 17
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
コウ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 講
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N4講義Popularlecture
- N4講堂Popularauditorium; lecture hall
- N3講演Popularlecture; address; speech
- N2休講Popularcancellation (of a lecture, class, etc.)
- N2講師Popularspeaker; lecturer; lecturer (at a university or college); instructor; part-time teacher; tutor (at a cram school)
- N1講習Popularshort course; training
- N1聴講Popularlecture attendance; auditing
- N1講読reading; translation
- —講座Popularcourse (e.g. of lectures); academic university unit (professor, lecturers, etc.)
- —講談Popularstorytelling (of war chronicles, revenge tales, etc.) with highly dramatic delivery; story
- —受講Populartaking a lecture; attending a class; taking a course
- —講和Popularreconciliation (between warring nations); (making of) peace
- —講演会Popularlecture (esp. special engagement by noted speaker); lecture meeting (event with one or more lectures)
- —講ずるPopularto lecture; to read aloud; to give a lecture (on); to devise (e.g. a strategy); to work out (e.g. a tactic); to take (e.g. measures); to carry out (e.g. a plan); to adopt (e.g. a policy); to reconciliate (with); to make peace (with); to make up (with); to recite poetry (at a poetry gathering)
- —受講料Popularcourse fee; tuition fee
- —講(Buddhist) lecture meeting; religious association; mutual assistance association (i.e. for financial assistance)
- —講壇lecture platform
- —講評criticism (by a teacher or coach, with commentary, especially at a poetry reading); review; critique
- —講話lecture; discourse
- —侍講tutor to a daimyo, etc.; tutor to the emperor or crown prince (Meiji period)