Entry
  1. Noun

    househusband; stay-at-home dad

    Colloquialpun on 主婦see 主婦

    アンタ本当に器用ねっ。主夫とか向いてるんじゃない?
    You're really handy, aren't you? Don't you think you'd make a good house-husband?
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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

lord, chief, master, main thing, principal

Kun
ぬしおもあるじ
On
シュシュウ
Strokes
5
Taught
Grade 3
JLPT
N4
Frequency
95 of 2500
Radical
dot
WaniKani
Level 4

Built from

Used in names as

かずもん

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
2-1-4, 2-2-3, 4-5-2SKIP code
4f1.1The Kanji Dictionary
0010.4Four corner code
472deroo
4e3bUnicode hex code
1-28-71JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
285Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
38New Nelson (John Haig)
1938New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2437Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1231Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1696Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
266Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
284Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
91A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
196Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
49Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
100Morohashi
299A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
155Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
155Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
237sakade
106Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
315henshall3
252Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
34crowley
70Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.10busy_people
19Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
272Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
zhu3Pinyin reading
juKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
4WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

husband, man

Kun
おっとそれ
On
フウ
Strokes
4
Taught
Grade 4
JLPT
N3
Frequency
335 of 2500
Radical
big
WaniKani
Level 15

Built from

Used in names as

ゆう

Dictionary and index codes (33)
CodeReference
4-4-4SKIP code
0a4.31The Kanji Dictionary
5003.0Four corner code
1463deroo
592bUnicode hex code
1-41-55JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
164Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1136New Nelson (John Haig)
3460New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4271Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2157Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2909Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
838Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
901Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
265A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
104Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
51Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
5835Morohashi
573A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
315Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
315Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
501sakade
445Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
601henshall3
445Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
220crowley
595Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
411Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
846Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
fu1, fu2Pinyin reading
buKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
15WaniKani level