EntryCommonJLPT N5WaniKani 7
  1. Noun

    older brother; elder brother

    Honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) languagesee 兄さん

    彼のお兄さんは有名なサッカーの選手です。
    His brother is a famous soccer player.
  2. young man; buddy; fella; laddie

    Familiar languageoft. vocativesee 兄さん

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

elder brother, big brother

Kun
あに
On
ケイキョウ
Strokes
5
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N4
Frequency
1219 of 2500
Radical
legs
WaniKani
Level 5

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Used in names as

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Dictionary and index codes (33)
CodeReference
2-3-2SKIP code
3d2.9The Kanji Dictionary
6021.0Four corner code
3757deroo
5144Unicode hex code
1-23-27JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
875Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
344New Nelson (John Haig)
2154New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2676Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1362Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1848Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
103Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
107Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1049A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
181Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
234Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1343Morohashi
267A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
406Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
410Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
199sakade
122Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
114henshall3
106Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
75Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
3.18busy_people
142Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
104Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
xiong1Pinyin reading
hyeongKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
5WaniKani level