EntryCommon
  1. Noun

    musical note; note symbol

    彼は、ピアノを音符を見ずに弾いた。
    He played piano by ear.
  2. phonetic symbol (incl. the kanji and kana-doubling symbols, vowel-lengthening symbol, etc.)

  3. part of a kanji for which the role is primarily to represent the pronunciation (as opposed to the meaning)

    see 意符

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Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

sound, noise

Kun
おと
On
オンイン-ノン
Strokes
9
Taught
Grade 1
JLPT
N4
Frequency
491 of 2500
Radical
sound
WaniKani
Level 5

Built from

Used in names as

Dictionary and index codes (33)
CodeReference
2-2-7, 2-5-4SKIP code
5b4.3The Kanji Dictionary
0060.1Four corner code
478deroo
97f3Unicode hex code
1-18-27JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5110Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6607New Nelson (John Haig)
2070New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2570Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1312Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1783Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
479Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
518Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
402A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
962Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
206Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
43265Morohashi
6A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
347Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
347Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
50sakade
274Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
33henshall3
78Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
620Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
3.18busy_people
1879Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
490Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
yin1Pinyin reading
eumKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
5WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

token, sign, mark, tally, charm

On
Strokes
11
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N2
Frequency
1798 of 2500
Radical
bamboo
WaniKani
Level 30

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (30)
CodeReference
2-6-5SKIP code
6f5.12The Kanji Dictionary
8824.3Four corner code
2348deroo
7b26Unicode hex code
1-41-68JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3383Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4270New Nelson (John Haig)
2661New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3299Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1707Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2319Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1001Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1076Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1653A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
951Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
25935Morohashi
1753A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
505Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
514Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
792Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1468Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
357Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
3.3busy_people
1475Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1010Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
fu2Pinyin reading
buKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
30WaniKani level