Kanji
N1 17 strokes Grade 8 freq #2105

rectify, straighten, correct, reform, cure

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

arrow ya

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

correction (of a fault, defect, flaw, etc.); remedy
trying to straighten the horns of a bull, and killing it in the process; trying to correct a small defect and ruining the whole thing
Japanese Orthodontic Society; JOS
Correctional Association Prison Industry Cooperation
reformatory; house of correction
lingual orthodontics (e.g. braces)
hypercorrection
orthodontics
orthodontics; orthodontia
orthodontist

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to throw the baby out with the bath water; to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
to redress injustice
eccentric habit
to straighten a branch

Example sentences

He needs discipline.

He is bad beyond correction.