Kanji
N1 11 strokes Grade 9

iris

On'yomi (音読み)

Radical (部首)

grass kusa

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

sweet flag (Acorus calamus); calamus
Iris ensata; Higo Japanese iris
wooly frogsmouth (Philydrum lanuginosum); wooly waterlily
Arctic iris (Iris setosa)
blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium rosulatum)
Japanese sweet flag (Acorus gramineus)
Iris ensata; Ise Japanese iris
yellow iris
Iris ensata; Edo Japanese iris
bathwater with iris leaves; sweet-flag bath

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

German iris (Iris germanica)
something that comes too late to be useful; iris (blooming) on the 6th (i.e. one day too late for the Boy's Day celebration)
gladiolus
(of a choice) one being as excellent as the other; both so beautiful it is hard to choose between
fragrant iris; sweet flag

Example sentences

The garden is famous for its irises.

The iris deeply associated with the Boys' Festival does not have a beautiful flower.

Many Japanese irises were flowering prettily on the lake's edge.