EntryCommonWaniKani 15
  1. Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb

    request; favour (to ask); wish

    Polite (teineigo) languagesee 願い

    「スミスさんをお願いしたいのですが」「スミスですが」
    "I'd like to talk to Mr Smith." "This is Smith speaking."
  2. Interjection (kandoushi)

    please

    see お願いします

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

petition, request, vow, wish, hope

Kun
ねが.う-ねがい
On
ガン
Strokes
19
Taught
Grade 4
JLPT
N3
Frequency
894 of 2500
Radical
leaf
WaniKani
Level 13

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Used in names as

Dictionary and index codes (32)
CodeReference
1-10-9, 3-3-16SKIP code
9a10.2The Kanji Dictionary
7128.6Four corner code
3361deroo
9858Unicode hex code
1-20-74JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
255Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6653New Nelson (John Haig)
1845New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2320Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1199Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1637Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
135Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
143Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
869A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
428Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
43623Morohashi
446A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
581Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
590Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
368sakade
1011Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
469henshall3
637Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
862Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.15busy_people
1897Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
137Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
yuan4Pinyin reading
weonKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
13WaniKani level