Kanji N1

漬: pickling, soak, moisten

漬 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning pickling, soak, moisten, written with 14 strokes. It is read シ (on) and つける, つかる (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 漬ける (つける, to soak) and 漬物 (つけもの, tsukemono).

漬

Meanings

  • pickling
  • soak
  • moisten
  • steep
Strokes14
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1818 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • シ

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

Kun reading
  • つける
  • つかる
  • -づけ
  • -づけ

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 漬

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

  • 漬けるつける

    to soak (in); to steep; to dip; to dunk

    JLPT N4
  • 漬物つけもの

    tsukemono (pickled vegetables)

  • 塩漬けしおづけ

    pickling in salt; food preserved in salt

  • 茶漬けちゃづけ

    chazuke; cooked rice with green tea poured on it

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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.