EntryCommonJLPT N4WaniKani 18
  1. Godan verb with 'ku' ending, Transitive verb

    to burn

    このお肉をもうすこし焼いてくださいませんか。
    Could you cook this meat a little more?
  2. to roast; to broil; to grill; to bake; to toast; to barbecue

  3. to heat; to heat up

  4. to make (charcoal, pottery, bricks, etc.); to bake; to fire; to burn

  5. to tan (i.e. suntan); to burn

    see 灼くsee やく

  6. to print (a photo); to burn (an optical disc)

  7. to be jealous of; to be envious of; to envy

    see 妬くsee やく

Also written 燬く【やく】焚く【やく】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

bake, burning

Kun
や.くや.きや.き--や.きや.ける
On
ショウ
Strokes
12
Taught
Grade 4
JLPT
N2
Frequency
982 of 2500
Radical
fire
WaniKani
Level 18

Built from

Used in names as

やいやき

Dictionary and index codes (32)
CodeReference
1-4-8, 1-1-11SKIP code
4d8.4The Kanji Dictionary
9481.1Four corner code
1157deroo
713cUnicode hex code
1-30-38JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2772Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3438New Nelson (John Haig)
997New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1256Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
681Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
909Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1200Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1284Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
733A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1588Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
671Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
19166PMorohashi
509A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
920Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
942Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
434sakade
717Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
539henshall3
590Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
218Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1268Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1208Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
shao1Pinyin reading
soKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
18WaniKani level