Kanji1 / 3
弓 kanji
bow, bow (archery, violin)
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
キュウ
Kun readings
ゆみ
Words with 弓
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —弓道Popularkyūdō; kyudo; Japanese archery
- —弓bow (and arrow); unit of distance to an archery target (approx. six feet); unit of distance for land surveying (approx. eight feet)
- —弓具things used in archery
- —弓術(Japanese) archery
- —胡弓kokyū; 3 or 4-stringed bowed Japanese musical instrument; any Asian string instrument played with a bow
- —半弓small bow
- —弓状bow-shaped; arched
- —運弓bowing (of a stringed instrument)
- —大弓bow; longbow
- —洋弓(Western) archery; Western-style bow
- —強弓bow with a heavy draw weight; someone who wields a heavy-draw-weight bow
- —弓馬archery and horsemanship
- —弓箭bow and arrow; arms; weapons; archer; warrior; fighting with bows and arrows; war; battle
- —楊弓small toy bow that can be shot while sitting, popular in the Edo period
- —鰓弓branchial arch; gill arch
- —脳弓fornix (of the brain); fornix cerebri
- —弓兵archer; bowman; bow-wielding soldier; crossbow soldier
- —長弓longbow
- —和弓yumi; Japanese-style bow; Japanese-style archery
- —弩弓crossbow