Entry
  1. Ichidan verb, Transitive verb

    to do

    Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language

  2. to eat; to drink

    Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language

  3. to put on; to wear

    Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language

  4. to buy; to purchase

    Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language

  5. to take (a bath)

    Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language

  6. Ichidan verb, Intransitive verb

    to ride; to get in (a vehicle); to take

    Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language

  7. Ichidan verb, Transitive verb

    to catch (a cold)

    Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language

  8. to put on (years); to get old

    Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) languageas お年を召される

  9. Ichidan verb, Intransitive verb

    to strike one's fancy; to please one

    Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) languageas お気に召される

  10. Auxiliary verb, Ichidan verb

    indicates respect

    Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) languageafter -masu stem of verb

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

seduce, call, send for, wear, put on, ride in, buy, eat, drink, catch (cold)

Kun
め.す
On
ショウ
Strokes
5
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N2
Frequency
1540 of 2500
Radical
mouth
WaniKani
Level 51

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Dictionary and index codes (30)
CodeReference
2-2-3SKIP code
2f3.3The Kanji Dictionary
1760.2Four corner code
3577deroo
53ecUnicode hex code
1-30-04JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
668Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
695New Nelson (John Haig)
2001New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2494Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1261Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1727Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
86Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
90Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1473A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
152Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1115Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
3241Morohashi
1387A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
995Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1032Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
396Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1043Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1691Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
279Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
87Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
zhao4, shao4, zhao1Pinyin reading
so, joKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
51WaniKani level