Kanji
N1 14 strokes Grade 8 freq #935

demand, request, need

On'yomi (音読み)

Radical (部首)

rain ame

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

demand; need
domestic demand
supply and demand
munitions; military stores
private demand
necessary
foreign demand
emergency demands; special procurement (particularly in time of war)
actual demand; user demand
necessities; necessary article

Example sentences

There is a great market for rice in Japan.

Sales at the company zoomed thanks to brisk export demand, but profit did not keep up because of intense competition.

In Japan there are a lot of translations from English to Japanese and from Japanese to English, but there isn't much real demand for Japanese to Spanish or Spanish to Japanese.

He has no daily necessities, much less luxuries.