重 · heavy, important

JLPT N4 kanji. Readings, meaning, and how the character is built.

重 means heavy, important. It is a JLPT N4 kanji written in 9 strokes, read おも or じゅう. It is built from 2 parts: 千 (thousand), 里 (ri, village). It appears in 重い (heavy) and 厳重 (strict / severe / firm).

筆順 · Stroke order

重 is written in 9 strokes, in the order numbered below. Order matters: it is what makes handwriting legible, and it is how the character is looked up in a paper dictionary.

解字 · What it is made of

重 breaks into 2 parts.

• 千 other thousand component
• 里 semantic ri, village carries the meaning

Words that use 重

Word	Reading	Meaning
重い	おもい	heavy
厳重	げんじゅう	strict / severe / firm
重体	じゅうたい	serious condition / critical condition

Built from the same parts

These use 千 or 里 too. The part keeps its job from one character to the next, which is what makes it worth learning once.

• 黒black
• 野field
• 理reason

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