Readings

Kana: ヤ、エ、なり、か、また
Romaji: ya, e, nari, ka, mata
Kana
Romaji

Name Reading

Kana:
Romaji: shi
Kana
Romaji

Meaning

to be (classical)

Stroke Diagram

123

Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  3
Radical Number:  2
Frequency:  1404
Grade:  9
Skip Pattern:  4-3-2
Korean Reading:  ya
Chinese Reading:  ye3
Unicode:  4e5f
JIS:  4C69

Indexes

Halpern Index: 3406
Nelson Index: 75
New Nelson Index: 58
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 0a3.29
Four Corner Index: 4471.2
Gakken Index: 1553
Japanese Names Index: 23
Daikanwanjiten Index: 171
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 1.0391
Remembering the kanji Index: 2094
1999 Kanji Learners Index: 2130
2013 Kanji Learners Index: 2878
Remembering the Kanji 6th Index: 2236
Essential Kanji Index: 1986
Kodansha Kanji Index: 4214

Words

(なり)
to be (an affirmation); to be (location); sum of money (used to express an exact sum on a receipt, envelope, certificate, etc.)
可也 (かなり)
considerably; fairly; quite
事実は小説より奇なり (じじつはしょうせつよりきなり)
truth is stranger than fiction
弱き者よ汝の名は女也 (よわきものよなんじのなはおんななり)
Frailty, thy name is woman
悪法も亦法也 (あくほうもまたほうなり)
A law is a law, however undesirable it may be
空也餅 (くうやもち)
chunky mochi made with half-polished rice, stuffed with red bean paste
時は金なり (ときはかねなり)
time is money
知らぬは亭主許り也 (しらぬはていしゅばかりなり)
Only the husband does not know
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