Kanji N3

覚: memorize, learn, remember

覚 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning memorize, learn, remember, written with 12 strokes. It is read カク (on) and おぼえる, さます, さめる (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 4. You will see it in 感覚 (かんかく, sense) and 覚悟 (かくご, readiness).

覚

Meanings

  • memorize
  • learn
  • remember
  • awake
  • sober up
Strokes12
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 4
Frequency#710 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • カク

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

Kun reading
  • おぼえる
  • さます
  • さめる
  • さとる

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

Watch the stroke order

Every stroke in order, the live one in vermilion. Replay as often as you like.

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Now draw it

Trace each stroke in order. Wrong direction or wrong order gets flagged right away.

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Your turn: draw stroke 1 of 12. Start at the dot.

Common words with 覚

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

  • 感覚かんかく

    sense; sensation; feeling; intuition

    JLPT N3
  • 覚悟かくご

    readiness; (mental) preparedness

    JLPT N3
  • 覚えるおぼえる

    to memorize; to memorise; to commit to memory

    JLPT N5
  • 覚めるさめる

    to wake; to wake up

    JLPT N3
  • 覚ますさます

    to awaken; to arouse from sleep

    JLPT N3
  • 自覚じかく

    self-awareness

    JLPT N1
  • 覚えおぼえ

    memory; sense; experience

    JLPT N1
  • 味覚みかく

    (sense of) taste; palate

    JLPT N1

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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.