Japanese word
重要
じゅうよう
In your course · Chapter 35
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Level
- B1
- Frequency
- No. 226 in the course corpus
Meanings
- important
Source: Tonada course
Kanji
- 重
- On reading:
- ジュウ、チョウ
- Kun reading:
- え、おも、おも.い、おも.なう、おも.り、かさ.なる、かさ.ねる
- Meanings:
- heavy, important, esteem, respect, heap up, pile up, nest of boxes, -fold
- 要
- On reading:
- ヨウ
- Kun reading:
- い.る、かなめ
- Meanings:
- need, main point, essence, pivot, key to
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))