Kanji
N2 5 strokes Grade 6 freq #1313

tome, counter for books, volume

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

down box keigamae

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

book; booklet
booklet; pamphlet
separate volume; extra issue
tanzaku; long, narrow strip of paper used for writing poetry, wishes, decorations, etc.
number of books
separate volume; fascicle
counter for books
one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume

Example sentences

He supplemented his lecture with a booklet.

Pleased with The Pilgrim's Progress, my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.

He lent me two books.

What is important is not how many books you read, but what books you read.