Entry
  1. Noun

    heavy rainfall; heavy snowfall; steady rainfall; downpour; raining in earnest

    雨は本降りになってきた。
    The rain came down in earnest.
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Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

book, present, main, origin, true, real, counter for long cylindrical things

Kun
もと
On
ホン
Strokes
5
Taught
Grade 1
JLPT
N5
Frequency
10 of 2500
Radical
tree
WaniKani
Level 2

Built from

Used in names as

まとごう

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
4-5-3SKIP code
0a5.25The Kanji Dictionary
5023.0Four corner code
1855deroo
672cUnicode hex code
1-43-60JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
96Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2536New Nelson (John Haig)
3502New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4314Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2183Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2937Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
211Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
224Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
15A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
212Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
20Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
14421Morohashi
70A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
25Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
25Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
45sakade
61Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
76henshall3
47Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
6crowley
37Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.1busy_people
1046Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
215Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
ben3Pinyin reading
bonKorean reading
n5JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
2WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

descend, precipitate, fall, surrender

Kun
お.りるお.ろすふ.るふ.りくだ.るくだ.す
On
コウ
Strokes
10
Taught
Grade 6
JLPT
N3
Frequency
596 of 2500
Radical
mound
WaniKani
Level 34

Built from

Used in names as

ふりふる

Dictionary and index codes (31)
CodeReference
1-3-7SKIP code
2d7.7The Kanji Dictionary
7725.4Four corner code
3655deroo
964dUnicode hex code
1-25-63JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4994Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6450New Nelson (John Haig)
458New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
548Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
335Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
414Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1308Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1405Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
787A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1058Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
887Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
41620Morohashi
863A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
947Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
977Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
984Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
873henshall3
898Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
136Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
731Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1317Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
jiang4, xiang2Pinyin reading
hang, gangKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
34WaniKani level