EntryCommonJLPT N5WaniKani 9
  1. Noun

    thing; object; article; stuff; substance

    遠まわしに物を言うな。
    Don't beat around the bush.
  2. one's things; possessions; property; belongings

    as 〜のもの, 〜のもん

  3. things; something; anything; everything; nothing

  4. quality

  5. reason; the way of things

  6. used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc.; used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense); used to indicate a general tendency; used to indicate something that should happen

    Usually written using kana aloneformal noun often used as 〜ものだ

  7. Noun, used as a suffix

    item classified as ...; item related to ...; work in the genre of ...

    Usually written using kana alone

  8. cause of ...; cause for ...

  9. Prefix

    somehow; somewhat; for some reason

    see 物寂しいsee ものさびしい

  10. really; truly

    see 物珍しいsee ものめずらしい

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

thing, object, matter

Kun
ものもの-
On
ブツモツ
Strokes
8
Taught
Grade 3
JLPT
N4
Frequency
215 of 2500
Radical
cow
WaniKani
Level 9

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Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
1-4-4SKIP code
4g4.2The Kanji Dictionary
2752.0Four corner code
2451deroo
7269Unicode hex code
1-42-10JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2857Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3538New Nelson (John Haig)
874New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1084Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
587Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
777Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1050Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1129Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
126A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
611Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
74Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
19959Morohashi
387A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
79Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
79Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
313sakade
214Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
410henshall3
313Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
95crowley
321Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.13busy_people
1290Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1059Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
wu4Pinyin reading
mulKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
9WaniKani level