日本語
Kanji
N1 8 strokes Grade 9 freq #1126

Africa, flatter, fawn upon, corner, nook

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

mound oka

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

Amitabha (Buddha); Amida
fool; idiot
chrysalis of a swallowtail butterfly (esp. of species Atrophaneura alcinous)
stupid chatter; foolish talk
open-mouthed form (statue with open mouth, symbolizing the "a" half of "aum")
Maitreya (bodhisattva)
abhidharma; texts that contain detailed reworkings of the Buddhist sutras
Okuni kabuki; progenitor of modern kabuki, developed by Izumo Taisha shrine maiden Izumo no Okuni and popularized in Kyoto (early Edo period)
common loon (Gavia immer); great northern diver
uncle (one's father's younger brother)

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

fools use people to pick up things lying at their own feet; stupidity of using people for small things
stripping a samurai of clothes and swords and exiling him naked (Edo-period punishment)
fool; idiot
Akshobhya (the immovable buddha)
an idiot will swallow anything; an idiot will believe anything they hear
Akshobhya (one of the Five Wisdom Buddhas)

Example sentences

Do you take me for a fool?

Today, looking at this web page, I realized that if these people are idiots then I must be a complete moron.