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Kanji: 空

KANJI
8 strokes
READINGS
KUN 訓
そら
ける
から
かす
むなしい
 ON 音 
クウ
STROKE ORDER
Slow Fast
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JLPT Level:
JLPT N4 (upper beginner level)
Kanken Level:
Kanken Level 10 (learned at completion of 1st grade)
Grade:
Taught during the 1st grade in Japan
Radical:
Radical name:
あな
Meaning:
Empty, sky, void, vacant, vacuum
Usage:
Appears frequently in Japanese newspapers, but about 300 kanji are used even more often.
JLPT Level Word Meaning
N5
(そら)
Sky
N4
()
to open, to become empty
N4
(くうき)
air, atmosphere
N4
(くうこう)
airport
N3
()
room, time to spare, emptiness
N3
(から)
sky
N3
(こうくう)
aviation, flying
N3
()
(1) to open, to become empty, (2) to be less crowded
N2
(かくう)
aerial, overhead, fiction, fanciful
N2
(から)っぽ
empty, vacant, hollow
N2
(くうそう)
daydream, fantasy, fancy, vision
N2
(くうちゅう)
sky, air
N2
(しんくう)
vacuum, hollow, empty
N1
(あきま)
vacancy, room for rent or lease
N1
(おおぞら)
heaven, firmament, the sky
N1
(くうふく)
hunger
N1
(じょうくう)
sky, the skies, high-altitude sky, upper air
N1
(むな)しい
vacant, futile, vain, void, empty, ineffective, lifeless
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