Meanings
- love
- affection
- favourite
Strokes13
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 4
Frequency#640 of 2,500
Kanji N3
愛: love, affection, favourite
愛 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning love, affection, favourite, written with 13 strokes. It is read アイ (on) and いとしい, かなしい, めでる (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 4. You will see it in 愛 (あい, love) and 愛情 (あいじょう, love).
愛
On reading · Kun reading
On reading
- アイ
On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.
Kun reading
- いとしい
- かなしい
- めでる
- おしむ
- まな
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 愛
The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.
- 愛あいJLPT N3
love; affection; care
- JLPT N3
- 愛するあいするJLPT N3
to love
- JLPT N5
- JLPT N1
- JLPT N1
- JLPT N2
- JLPT N1
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