Kanji N2

郵: mail, stagecoach stop

郵 is a JLPT N2 kanji meaning mail, stagecoach stop, written with 11 strokes. It is read ユウ (on), and has no common kun reading. Children in Japan learn it in grade 6. You will see it in 郵便 (ゆうびん, mail service) and 郵便局 (ゆうびんきょく, post office).

郵

Meanings

  • mail
  • stagecoach stop
Strokes11
JLPT levelN2
School gradeGrade 6
Frequency#917 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ユウ

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 郵

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

  • 郵便ゆうびん

    mail service; postal service; mail; post

    JLPT N3
  • 郵便局ゆうびんきょく

    post office

    JLPT N5
  • 郵送ゆうそう

    mailing; posting

    JLPT N2
  • 郵政ゆうせい

    postal system

  • 郵貯ゆうちょ

    postal (post-office) savings (deposit)

  • 郵政省ゆうせいしょう

    (former) Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (now Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)

  • 郵船ゆうせん

    mail boat

  • 郵便受けゆうびんうけ

    mailbox; letter box; letterbox; mail slot

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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.