Kanji N3

定: determine, fix, establish

定 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning determine, fix, establish, written with 8 strokes. It is read テイ, ジョウ (on) and さだめる, さだまる, さだか (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 3. You will see it in 決定 (けってい, decision) and 予定 (よてい, plans).

定

Meanings

  • determine
  • fix
  • establish
  • decide
Strokes8
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 3
Frequency#48 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • テイ
  • ジョウ

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

Kun reading
  • さだめる
  • さだまる
  • さだか

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 定

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

  • 決定けってい

    decision; determination

    JLPT N3
  • 予定よてい

    plans; arrangement; schedule; program; programme

    JLPT N4
  • 安定あんてい

    stability; steadiness; consistency; equilibrium

    JLPT N3
  • 定期ていき

    fixed period; fixed term

    JLPT N3
  • 否定ひてい

    denial; negation; repudiation; disavowal

    JLPT N3
  • 勘定かんじょう

    calculation; computation; counting; reckoning

    JLPT N3
  • 規定きてい

    stipulation; prescription; provision; regulation

    JLPT N1
  • 指定してい

    designation; specification; assignment

    JLPT N2

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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.