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勉 kanji
exertion, endeavour, encourage, strive, make effort, diligent
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ベン
Kun readings
つとめる
Variant forms
勉Words with 勉
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3勉強Popularstudy; diligence; working hard; experience; knowledge; lesson (for the future); discount; price reduction
- N1勤勉Populardiligent; hard-working; industrious
- —勉学Popularstudy; pursuit of knowledge
- —勉強中Popularwhile studying; presently studying
- —勉励diligence
- —黽勉industry; diligence
- —無勉without studying
- —猛勉studying hard; cramming
- —ガリ勉person who studies very hard (at school); grind; swot; drudge; studying hard; cramming; swotting
- —不勉強idleness; lack of application; lazy study habits
- —勉強家diligent student; studious person
- —勉強机study desk
- —猛勉強studying very hard; studying like mad
- —勉強会study group; study meeting
- —勉強運one's fate (fortune) as concerns studies
- —置き勉leaving all your textbooks, etc., at school
- —勤勉家diligent worker; hard worker
- —ノー勉not studying (for a test, etc.); not having studied
- —のこ勉staying behind after school to do private study
- —勉強代cost of a lesson learned (e.g. from failing at something); price of a life lesson