EntryCommon
  1. Noun

    childhood friend; friend from infancy; old playmate

    幼なじみが春から大阪の大学に行くらしい。
    Apparently an old friend of mine is going to a university in Osaka in Spring.

Also written 幼馴染【おさななじみ】幼馴染み【おさななじみ】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

infancy, childhood

Kun
おさな.い
On
ヨウ
Strokes
5
Taught
Grade 6
JLPT
N2
Frequency
1227 of 2500
Radical
short thread
WaniKani
Level 28

Built from

Used in names as

うぶわか

Dictionary and index codes (31)
CodeReference
1-3-2SKIP code
2g3.3The Kanji Dictionary
2472.7Four corner code
2745deroo
5e7cUnicode hex code
1-45-36JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1495Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1599New Nelson (John Haig)
191New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
222Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
140Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
168Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1378Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1478Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1099A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
428Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1334Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
9193Morohashi
985A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1229Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1293Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
505Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
996henshall3
838Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1099Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
578Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1390Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
you4Pinyin reading
yuKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
28WaniKani level