Kanji
N1 16 strokes Grade 5 freq #734

entertain, revive, retrieve, interest, pleasure

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

mortar usu

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

interest (in something); curiosity (about something)
promotion; encouragement
revival; reconstruction
interest; entertainment
rising; developing
show; performance
excitement; stimulation
promotion of industry; inauguration of a new industrial enterprise
improvisation
revival; restoration

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to amuse oneself; to make merry
very interesting; of great interest
very interesting; of absorbing interest
to vitalize (e.g. an industry); to invigorate

Example sentences

Are you interested in Japanese music?

Lots of people are interested in cars, but they're really nothing to me.

Local finance are bankrolling the industrial promotion program.

Japan is a famous come-back story after World War II.