重 – Kanji details

Keyword

heavy

Info

Frequency	Top 100-200
Type	Kyōiku (3rd grade) ?
Kanken	Level 8
Heisig	1805
Readings	じゅう (38%) おも (23%) かさ (16%) ちょう (15%) え (4%) じょう (1%)
	がさ

Composed of

千

thousand

里

home village

Mnemonic

Over a thousand folk call this their home village, it must be a heavy responsibility for the village chief to take care of it.

Used in kanji (8 in total)

move

seed

collide

fragrant herb

heel

become swollen

???

bronze jar

Used in vocabulary (774 in total)

重おもい

heavy; weighty; heavy (feeling); depressed; slow; sluggish; important (position, responsibility, etc.)

重じゅう要よう

important; essential; significant; major; key; principal

重かさねる

to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate

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Examples (200 in total)

重おもい気き分ぶんだけ残のこった。

Only a heavy feeling remained.

重おもそうな木きの扉とびらを簡かん単たんに開ひらき、彼かれが中なかに入はいっていく。

He easily opens the heavy-looking wooden door and goes inside.

すぐに身体からだを起おこそうとして、妙みょうに身体からだが重おもいことに気き付づいた。

I tried to sit up immediately, but noticed that my body was strangely heavy.

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