Kanji N3

議: deliberation, consultation, debate

議 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning deliberation, consultation, debate, written with 20 strokes. It is read ギ (on), and has no common kun reading. Children in Japan learn it in grade 4. You will see it in 会議 (かいぎ, meeting) and 議員 (ぎいん, member of an assembly).

議

Meanings

  • deliberation
  • consultation
  • debate
  • consideration
Strokes20
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 4
Frequency#25 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ギ

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

Kun reading
  • None in common use

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 議

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

  • 会議かいぎ

    meeting; conference; session; assembly; council

    JLPT N4
  • 議員ぎいん

    member of an assembly; member of the Diet

    JLPT N3
  • 議会ぎかい

    congress; parliament; diet; legislative assembly

    JLPT N3
  • 議長ぎちょう

    chair; chairman; chairperson

    JLPT N3
  • 議論ぎろん

    argument; discussion; dispute; controversy

    JLPT N3
  • 会議室かいぎしつ

    conference room; council room

    JLPT N4
  • 不思議ふしぎ

    wonderful; marvelous; strange; incredible

    JLPT N3
  • 決議けつぎ

    resolution; vote; decision

    JLPT N1

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