Kanji N2

兆: portent, 10**12, trillion

兆 is a JLPT N2 kanji meaning portent, 10**12, trillion, written with 6 strokes. It is read チョウ (on) and きざす, きざし (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 4. You will see it in 兆し (きざし, sign) and 兆候 (ちょうこう, sign).

兆

Meanings

  • portent
  • 10**12
  • trillion
  • sign
  • omen
  • symptoms
Strokes6
JLPT levelN2
School gradeGrade 4
Frequency#1174 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • チョウ

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

Kun reading
  • きざす
  • きざし

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 兆

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

  • 兆しきざし

    sign; indication; omen; symptom

    JLPT N1
  • 兆候ちょうこう

    sign; indication; omen; symptom

  • 前兆ぜんちょう

    omen; portent; sign; presage; harbinger

  • 吉兆きっちょう

    lucky omen; good omen

  • 兆ちょう

    10^12; 1,000,000,000,000; trillion

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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.