Kanji1 / 18
顔 kanji
face, expression
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 18
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
Practice writing
Choose this kanji to write on five sheets. Save your practice to revisit it in My writing.
On readings
ガン
Kun readings
かお
Variant forms
顏Words with 顔
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —顔面Popularface (of person)
- —童顔Popularchild's face; childlike face; boyish face; baby face
- —温顔kindly face
- —汗顔ashamed
- —顔料pigment; paint; colour; color
- —厚顔impudence; audacity; shamelessness; effrontery
- —紅顔rosy cheeks
- —朱顔flushed face
- —洗顔face-washing
- —尊顔(one's) countenance; face
- —台顔your face
- —天顔emperor's countenance
- —竜顔Imperial countenance; face of the Emperor
- —破顔giving a broad smile
- —顔黒ganguro; young girl who heavily tans her skin, bleaches her hair and wears heavy make-up
- —容顔features; looks
- —拝顔meeting (someone)
- —酔顔drunken face; drunken expression
- —対顔meeting
- —美顔beautiful face; facial care; facial treatment