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Kanji Detail for 類 - "kind"

類

  • Meaning

    類 means "kind." Also associated with to compare, to resemble.

    1. Kind - Category; type; class of similar things.

    2. To compare - To place side by side for comparison.

  • Words using 類

    • 人類 じんるい Listen mankind; humanity
    • 書類 しょるい Listen document; papers
    • 種類 しゅるい Listen variety; kind; type
    • 親類 しんるい Listen relative; relation; kin
    • 衣類 いるい Listen clothes; clothing; garments
    • 分類 ぶんるい Listen classification; categorization; sorting
    • 類似 るいじ Listen resemblance; similarity; likeness
    • 酒類 しゅるい Listen alcoholic drinks; liquor

  • Four-character idioms with 類

    • 天下無類 てんかむるい Listen peerless (unparalleled, matchless, unequaled) in the country
    • 異類異形 いるいいぎょう Listen strange-looking creatures; spirits and goblins
    • 親類縁者 しんるいえんじゃ Listen one's relatives by blood and marriage (in blood and law); one's kith and kin

  • Origin of 類

    米, grain, over 大 — a flattened 犬, the dog, whose dot the Japanese standard form drops — with 頁 on the right; accounts read 米頁 as lending the reading rui, the dog as the creature whose kinds run closest together. The sense is likeness and category: 種類 a kind, 人類 humankind.

    How to remember it: Creatures sorted by how closely they resemble one another — kinds, categories.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

  • Tattoo check: 類

    • Verified meaning: kind
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read たぐい, るい)
    • Also carries these associations: to compare, to resemble

    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.

  • Name readings of 類

    Given names 類(たぐい)Listen 類(るい)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    class; group; kind; category

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    class, group, kind, category

  • Onyomi

    tip
    none

  • Kunyomi

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    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    19 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    頁 (ogai・ichinokai)

  • Related Keywords

    kind to compare to resemble generally group breed category class comparison genre similar quality character nature

Sentences including 類

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