Kanji N3

求: request, want, wish for

求 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning request, want, wish for, written with 7 strokes. It is read キュウ, グ (on) and もとめる (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 4. You will see it in 要求 (ようきゅう, demand) and 請求 (せいきゅう, claim).

求

Meanings

  • request
  • want
  • wish for
  • require
  • demand
Strokes7
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 4
Frequency#220 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • キュウ
  • グ

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

Kun reading
  • もとめる

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 求

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

  • 要求ようきゅう

    demand; firm request; requisition; requirement

    JLPT N3
  • 請求せいきゅう

    claim; demand; charge; application; request

    JLPT N3
  • 求めるもとめる

    to want; to wish for

    JLPT N3
  • 求人きゅうじん

    recruiting; job offer; job vacancy

  • 欲求よっきゅう

    desire; want; will; wish; urge; craving

  • 追求ついきゅう

    pursuit (of a goal, ideal, etc.); search; chase

  • 求刑きゅうけい

    recommended sentence

  • 求心力きゅうしんりょく

    centripetal force

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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; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.