Kanji
N2 16 strokes Grade 8 freq #1009

dilute, thin, weak (tea), pampas grass

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

grass kusa

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

thin (air); weak (liquid)
feeble-mindedness; intellectual disability
closing in on (the enemy, first place, etc.); coming close to
cake flour; pastry flour
thin ice
frivolous; flippant
Chinese silvergrass (Miscanthus sinensis); maiden grass

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to fade; to become dim
thin (of an object)
dim; gloomy
shorthanded; short of hands
thin film
thin slice; slicing thin
thin board; veneer
shortage of stock; scarcity of goods
to dilute; to water down
to become weak

Example sentences

Today the ozone layer is thinning.

The air is rarefied on high mountains.

She had begun to recede in my memory.

My memory of her has begun to recede.