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Kanji Detail for 諾 - "consent, to accept"

諾

  • Meaning

    諾 means "consent, to accept." Also associated with to promise.

    1. Consent - To agree; to approve.

    2. Accept - To receive willingly; to say yes.

    3. Promise - A commitment to do something.

  • Words using 諾

    • 受諾 じゅだく Listen acceptance
    • 承諾 しょうだく Listen consent; approval; acceptance
    • 許諾 きょだく Listen consent; assent; approval

  • Four-character idioms with 諾

    • 一諾千金 いちだくせんきん Listen one's word is worth 1,000 pieces of gold; a promise should be kept at all cost
    • 事後承諾 じごしょうだく Listen ex-post-facto approval

  • Tattoo check: 諾

    • Verified meaning: consent, to accept
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: to promise

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    consent; assent; agreement

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    promise; assent, approve

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to consent; to promise; (literary) yes!

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to promise; to approve, to assent to

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A responding word. Quick response is called 唯. Slow response is called 諾. | Promising someone with words is also called 諾. Such as saying 不輕然諾 (not lightly agreeing). The Chu proverb says "Getting a hundred catties of gold is not as good as getting one promise from Ji Bu." Appears in "Records of the Grand Historian." Today people say 金諾 (golden promise), based on this. | The seal on documents is called 諾. Such as signing is called 畫諾 (marking approval).

  • Onyomi

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    daku(ダク) ダク

  • Kunyomi

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    none

  • Strokes

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    15 strokes

  • Radical

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    言 (gen・gomben・kotoba)

  • Related Keywords

    consent to accept to promise acknowledge agree answer assent approval affirmation compliance endorsement permission willingly yes

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