EntryCommon
  1. Noun

    seducer; smooth talker; ladies' man; playboy; playgirl

  2. Noun, Suru verb

    picking up women; hitting on women

    Usually written using kana aloneColloquialusu. written as ナンパsee 逆ナン

  3. Noun

    moderate party; moderate

    see 硬派

  4. social story (in a newspaper, etc.); society columnist (of a newspaper)

  5. bearish trader; bear

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Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

soft

Kun
やわ.らかやわ.らかい
On
ナン
Strokes
11
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N2
Frequency
1269 of 2500
Radical
cart
WaniKani
Level 51

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (29)
CodeReference
1-7-4SKIP code
7c4.1The Kanji Dictionary
5708.2Four corner code
1562deroo
8edfUnicode hex code
1-38-80JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4614Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
5947New Nelson (John Haig)
1479New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1871Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
994Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1345Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
470Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
509Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1199A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1482Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
38213Morohashi
1673A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1788Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1922Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
940Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1489Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1308Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1774Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
481Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
ruan3Pinyin reading
yeonKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
51WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

faction, group, party, clique, sect, school

On
Strokes
9
Taught
Grade 6
JLPT
N1
Frequency
164 of 2500
Radical
water
WaniKani
Level 21

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (33)
CodeReference
1-3-6SKIP code
3a6.21The Kanji Dictionary
3213.2Four corner code
365deroo
6d3eUnicode hex code
1-39-41JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2547Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3126New Nelson (John Haig)
381New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
456Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
281Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
341Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1855Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1999Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
293A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
812Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
516Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
17428Morohashi
955A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
912Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
934Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
857sakade
1471Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
965henshall3
892Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
286crowley
1191Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1192Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1872Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
pai4, pa1Pinyin reading
paKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
21WaniKani level