Kanji N2

純: genuine, purity, innocence

純 is a JLPT N2 kanji meaning genuine, purity, innocence, written with 10 strokes. It is read ジュン (on), and has no common kun reading. Children in Japan learn it in grade 6. You will see it in 単純 (たんじゅん, simple) and 純粋 (じゅんすい, pure).

純

Meanings

  • genuine
  • purity
  • innocence
  • net (profit)
Strokes10
JLPT levelN2
School gradeGrade 6
Frequency#1044 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ジュン

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 純

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

  • 単純たんじゅん

    simple; plain; uncomplicated; straightforward

    JLPT N3
  • 純粋じゅんすい

    pure; true; genuine; unmixed

    JLPT N2
  • 純情じゅんじょう

    pure heart; naivete; innocence

    JLPT N2
  • 清純せいじゅん

    purity; innocence

    JLPT N1
  • 純じゅん

    innocent; chaste; naive

  • 純金じゅんきん

    pure gold; solid gold; fine gold

  • 純益じゅんえき

    clear profit; net income; net profit

  • 純度じゅんど

    purity (of a substance)

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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.