Kanji N4

住: dwell, reside, live

住

Meanings

  • dwell
  • reside
  • live
  • inhabit
Strokes7
JLPT levelN4
School gradeGrade 3
Frequency#270 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ジュウ
  • ヂュウ
  • チュウ

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

Kun reading
  • すむ
  • すまう
  • -ずまい

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

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

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

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings and meanings from KANJIDIC2 © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.