Kanji N1

授: impart, instruct, grant

授 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning impart, instruct, grant, written with 11 strokes. It is read ジュ (on) and さずける, さずかる (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 5. You will see it in 教授 (きょうじゅ, professor) and 授業 (じゅぎょう, lesson).

授

Meanings

  • impart
  • instruct
  • grant
  • confer
Strokes11
JLPT levelN1
School gradeGrade 5
Frequency#535 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ジュ

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

Kun reading
  • さずける
  • さずかる

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 授

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

  • 教授きょうじゅ

    professor

    JLPT N3
  • 授業じゅぎょう

    lesson; class; teaching; instruction; classwork

    JLPT N5
  • 助教授じょきょうじゅ

    assistant professor; associate professor

    JLPT N2
  • 授けるさずける

    to grant; to give; to confer; to award

    JLPT N1
  • 授受じゅじゅ

    giving and receiving; transferring; transfer

  • 授賞式じゅしょうしき

    award ceremony; prize-giving

  • 授業料じゅぎょうりょう

    tuition fee; course fee

  • 授与じゅよ

    awarding; conferment; granting; presentation

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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.