Kanji
N4 11 strokes Grade 2 freq #86

logic, arrangement, reason, justice, truth

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

jade tama

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

control; management (e.g. of a business)
director; trustee
reason; grounds
processing; dealing with
prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government); premier
understanding; comprehension
cooking; cookery
reason; principle
representation; agency
(Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle

Example sentences

He's in charge of administration at the hospital.

He came upon his employee who'd been looking after the place in his absence.

He is a director, and should be treated as such.

He resigned on the grounds that he was ill.