Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

jōyō kanji

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: joy-o kan-ji
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the kanji in a list of common kanji prepared by the Japanese government.

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 常用漢字 (jōyō kanji).

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: 常用漢字

Questions

What does jōyō kanji mean?: Any of the kanji in a list of common kanji prepared by the Japanese government.
Where does jōyō kanji come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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