Kanji
N1 13 strokes Grade 8 freq #2480

smell, sniff, scent

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

mouth kuchi

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

hyposmia; microsmia
phantosmia; phantom smell
olfactory organ
anosmia; smell blindness
dysosmia
anosmia; smell blindness
olfactory receptor neuron; olfactory sensory neuron
olfactory bulb; bulbus olfactorius
rhinencephalon
olfactory cell

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to sniff; to smell
to smell
inhalant; medicine that is inhaled
tea tasting; tea-tasting
to bribe
to scent out; to detect
Yama's pole with a human head on the top (able to discern good and evil of the dead)
to sniff around
to sniff out; to catch the scent of
snuff

Example sentences

We smell with our noses.

I sniffed the smell.

She is an old hand at spying on tax evaders.

He's always anxious to pick up gossip.