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念

JLPT N3 SL4 8 strokes Frequency: #390

Meanings

Wish, Sense, Idea, Thought, Feeling, Desire, Attention

Radicals

心

Decomposition

⿱今心

Etymology

Ideographic: To keep the present 今 in mind 心

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 8

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

2 diagonal right-to-left

3 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

4 corner top-left-to-bottom-right

5 dot bottom-to-top

6 hook left-to-right

7 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

8 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ネン nen

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

224 words total

Other (20 words)

余念よねん

another idea

理念りねん

(Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights)

念々ねんねん

continually thinking about something

wicked thought

to give thought to

desire

empty words

silent rumination

worry

anniversary of the end of a war (esp. the end of WWII, August 15)

存念ぞんねん

opinion

建国記念日けんこくきねんび

National Foundation Day

wedding anniversary

critical moment

generic concept

United Nations Day

thought

consolation prize

moral sense

(a) thought one will never forget

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