Onyomi: ジュウ, チョウ · Kunyomi: え, おも, おも.い, おも.なう, おも.り, かさ.なる, かさ.ねる · Meanings: -fold, esteem, heap up, heavy, important, nest of boxes, pile up, respect
Kanji for -fold, esteem, heap up, heavy, important
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The kanji 重 combines two layers or stacked components, symbolizing weight or something piled up. In ancient times, it represented heaviness, layers, or importance. 重 came to mean heavy, important, or to pile, capturing mass, significance, and accumulation.
Layers stacked together — 重 means heavy, important, or piled up.
Imagine stacking boxes on top of each other — that’s 重, the kanji for heaviness and importance.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 重 | じゅう | jūbako, multi-tiered food box | Noun |
| 主 | おも | chief, main, principal, important | common Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), Noun |
| 重 | え | -fold, -ply | JLPT-N1 Suffix, Counter |
| 重い | おもい | heavy, weighty | common JLPT-N5 I-adjective (keiyoushi) |
| 重力 | じゅうりょく | gravity, gravitation, gravitational pull | common JLPT-N2 Noun |
| 重要 | じゅうよう | important, essential, significant, major, key, principal | common JLPT-N3 Na-adjective (keiyodoshi) |
| 重大 | じゅうだい | serious, important, significant, grave, weighty | common JLPT-N3 Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), Noun |
| 重視 | じゅうし | regarding as important, attaching importance to, taking a serious view of, putting emphasis on | common JLPT-N3 Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb |
| 重役 | じゅうやく | (company) director, executive, top management | common JLPT-N2 JLPT-N1 Noun |
| 重ねる | かさねる | to pile up, to heap up, to stack up, to put on top of another | common JLPT-N2 Ichidan verb, Transitive verb |