Kanji1 / 12
軽 kanji
lightly, trifling, unimportant
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ケイキョウキン
Kun readings
かるいかろやかかろんじる
Variant forms
輕Words with 軽
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —軽カーk-car; kei car; lightweight car with lower registration costs
- —軽量級lightweight class
- —軽電機(electrical) appliance
- —重軽傷serious or slight injury; major and minor injuries
- —軽鬆土loam; humus; soil formed from fine volcanic ash
- —軽蔑語pejorative term; derogatory word; invective
- —軽粒子lepton
- —軽トラminitruck; light truck; small truck; light pickup
- —軽速歩posting trot (horse gait)
- —軽野砲light field gun
- —軽傷者slightly injured person; slightly wounded person; person with minor injuries
- —至軽風light air (Beaufort scale)
- —軽質油light crude oil
- —軽蔑的contemptuous; disdainful; scornful
- —軽車両light vehicle lacking a motor (e.g. cart, bicycle)
- —超軽量ultralight; ultralightweight
- —軽戦車light tank; whippet tank
- —軽四輪four-wheeled light vehicle
- —軽禁錮minor imprisonment; imprisonment without hard labor (hard labour)
- —軽症者person (patient) with minor illness; person showing only minor symptoms (of a disease)