Japanese kanji details
Kanji 要
need, main point, essence, pivot, key to
Kanji data is provided by the KANJIDIC project maintained by the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group.
- Stroke count
- 9
- School grade
- 4
- Frequency rank
- 106
- SKIP code
- 2-6-3
- Four-corner code
- 1040.4
- Radical
- 146
Readings for 要
Common on’yomi, kun’yomi and other readings recorded for this character.
| ヨウ | onyomi |
| い.る | kunyomi |
| かなめ | kunyomi |
| とし | kunyomi |
Japanese verbs using 要
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| English | Romaji | Japanese | Class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| to need | iru | 要る | 1 | Conjugate |