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EntryCommonJLPT N3WaniKani 2

  1. Noun

    circle

    see ○see まる・1

    ジョンとキャシーは興味も性格も違う。その二人を一緒にさせようとするのは丸穴に角釘を打つようなものだ。
    John and Cathy have different tastes and different characters. Trying to get them together is like putting a square peg in a round hole.

  2. Noun, Noun, used as a prefix

    entirety; whole; full; complete

  3. Noun

    money; dough; moola

    Slang

  4. enclosure inside a castle's walls

    esp. 丸

  5. soft-shelled turtle

    Kansai dialectsee スッポン

  6. Suffix

    suffix for ship names; suffix for names of people (esp. infants); suffix for names of swords, armour, musical instruments, etc.; suffix for names of dogs, horses, etc.

    esp. 丸see 麻呂

Also written 円【まる】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
丸
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

round, full (month), perfection, -ship, pills, make round, roll up, curl up, seduce, explain away

Kun
まるまる.めるまる.い
On
ガン
Strokes
3
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N2
Frequency
542 of 2500
Radical
丶 dot
WaniKani
Level 2

Built from

九丶

Used in names as

まわわに

Words starting with 丸Words ending in 丸Anywhere in a word
Dictionary and index codes (31)
CodeReference
4-3-4SKIP code
0a3.28The Kanji Dictionary
5001.7Four corner code
1657deroo
4e38Unicode hex code
1-20-61JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
155Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
34New Nelson (John Haig)
3417New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4225Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2134Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2883Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
44Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
44Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
567A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
40Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
922Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
94Morohashi
830A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
644Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
654Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
288Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
101henshall3
82Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
591Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
17Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
44Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
wan2Pinyin reading
hwanKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
2WaniKani level