Entry
  1. V4h, Transitive verb

    to give

    ArchaicHonorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language

  2. V2h S, Transitive verb

    to receive

    ArchaicHumble (kenjougo) language

Also written 賜ふ【たまう】

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Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

salary, wage, gift, allow, grant, bestow on

Kun
たま.うたも.う-たま.え
On
キュウ
Strokes
12
Taught
Grade 4
JLPT
N3
Frequency
615 of 2500
Radical
silk
WaniKani
Level 27

Built from

Used in names as

きい

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
1-6-6SKIP code
6a6.7The Kanji Dictionary
2896.1Four corner code
2777deroo
7d66Unicode hex code
1-21-75JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3538Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4489New Nelson (John Haig)
1350New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1708Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
914Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1237Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1349Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1449Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
581A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2149Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
348Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
27432Morohashi
457A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
346Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
346Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
585sakade
818Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
481henshall3
583Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
404crowley
618Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
3.1busy_people
1531Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1361Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
gei3, ji3Pinyin reading
geubKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
27WaniKani level