Kanji N3

宅: home, house, residence

宅 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning home, house, residence, written with 6 strokes. It is read タク (on), and has no common kun reading. Children in Japan learn it in grade 6. You will see it in 住宅 (じゅうたく, residence) and 宅 (たく, house).

宅

Meanings

  • home
  • house
  • residence
  • our house
  • my husband
Strokes6
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 6
Frequency#357 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • タク

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • None in common use

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 宅

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 住宅じゅうたく

    residence; housing; residential building

    JLPT N3
  • 宅たく

    house; home

    JLPT N3
  • 帰宅きたく

    returning home; going home; coming home

    JLPT N3
  • お宅おたく

    your house; your home; your family

    JLPT N4
  • 社宅しゃたく

    company housing

    JLPT N1
  • 邸宅ていたく

    (large) house; residence; mansion

    JLPT N1
  • 自宅じたく

    one's home; one's house

  • 在宅ざいたく

    being at home; being in

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.