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重 え、おも.い、おも.り、おも.なう、かさ.ねる、かさ.なる、おも heavy, heap up, pile up, nest of boxes, -fold 4 193 9 166 さと・さとへん 会意 Compound Ideographic The first computer in the world was as heavy as thousand computers are now.

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ジュウ、チョウ さね, しげ, しげる 重態(じゅうたい): seriously ill; serious condition; critical state重複(ちょうふく): duplication; repetition; overlapping; redundancy; restoration重要(じゅうよう): important; momentous; essential; principal; major重大(じゅうだい): serious; important; significant; grave; weighty貴重(きちょう): precious; valuable重視(じゅうし): importance; stress; serious consideration重点(じゅうてん): important point; lay stress on; colon; emphasis慎重(しんちょう): careful; cautious; prudent; discreet; deliberate体重(たいじゅう): body weight (usu. one's own)重量(じゅうりょう): (1) weight (2) heavyweight boxer尊重(そんちょう): respect; esteem; regard一重(ひとえ): one layer; single; onefold厳重(げんじゅう): strict; rigour; rigor; severe; firm; strong; secure重ねる(かさねる): to pile up; to put something on another; to heap up; to add; to repeat重力(じゅうりょく): gravity重役(じゅうやく): company director; top management; high executive; (person with) heavy responsibilities比重(ひじゅう): (1) specific gravity; weight; part (2) relative weight; relative importance重い(おもい): (1) heavy; weighty; massive (2) heavy (feeling); depressed; gloomy; blue; uneasy (3) slow; sluggish; lumbering; ponderous; clumsy (4) important; serious; grave (5) serious; severe; critical (6) solid; established; dignified; sensible重んじる(おもんじる): to respect; to honor; to honour; to esteem; to prize重宝(ちょうほう): (1) convenient; useful; handy; helpful (2) priceless treasure (3) valuing highly; prizing重なる(かさなる): (1) to be piled up; to lie on top of one another (2) to come one after another; to happen over and over; to pile up (e.g. stress); to accumulate (3) to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time; to happen simultaneously重たい(おもたい): heavy; massive; serious; important; severe; oppressed重んずる(おもんずる): to honor; to honour; to respect; to esteem; to prize重(え): -fold; -ply重(じゅう): greater degree; heavy; serious 3 千: thousand里: ri; village; parent's home; league 里 7 (none) heavy To me it looks like a car with two extra wheels, like a truck. As it is a very heavy vehicle I suggest an image of a huge mining truck, like the yellow Liebherr T282B. Remember that the first "wheel" is a bit bent. http://www.primidi.com/2004/06/21.html.

Kanji	重
Onyomi	ジュウ、チョウ
Kunyomi	え、おも.い、おも.り、おも.なう、かさ.ねる、かさ.なる、おも
Nanori	さね, しげ, しげる
English	heavy, heap up, pile up, nest of boxes, -fold
Examples	重態(じゅうたい): seriously ill; serious condition; critical state 重複(ちょうふく): duplication; repetition; overlapping; redundancy; restoration 重要(じゅうよう): important; momentous; essential; principal; major 重大(じゅうだい): serious; important; significant; grave; weighty 貴重(きちょう): precious; valuable 重視(じゅうし): importance; stress; serious consideration 重点(じゅうてん): important point; lay stress on; colon; emphasis 慎重(しんちょう): careful; cautious; prudent; discreet; deliberate 体重(たいじゅう): body weight (usu. one's own) 重量(じゅうりょう): (1) weight (2) heavyweight boxer 尊重(そんちょう): respect; esteem; regard 一重(ひとえ): one layer; single; onefold 厳重(げんじゅう): strict; rigour; rigor; severe; firm; strong; secure 重ねる(かさねる): to pile up; to put something on another; to heap up; to add; to repeat 重力(じゅうりょく): gravity 重役(じゅうやく): company director; top management; high executive; (person with) heavy responsibilities 比重(ひじゅう): (1) specific gravity; weight; part (2) relative weight; relative importance 重い(おもい): (1) heavy; weighty; massive (2) heavy (feeling); depressed; gloomy; blue; uneasy (3) slow; sluggish; lumbering; ponderous; clumsy (4) important; serious; grave (5) serious; severe; critical (6) solid; established; dignified; sensible 重んじる(おもんじる): to respect; to honor; to honour; to esteem; to prize 重宝(ちょうほう): (1) convenient; useful; handy; helpful (2) priceless treasure (3) valuing highly; prizing 重なる(かさなる): (1) to be piled up; to lie on top of one another (2) to come one after another; to happen over and over; to pile up (e.g. stress); to accumulate (3) to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time; to happen simultaneously 重たい(おもたい): heavy; massive; serious; important; severe; oppressed 重んずる(おもんずる): to honor; to honour; to respect; to esteem; to prize 重(え): -fold; -ply 重(じゅう): greater degree; heavy; serious
JLPT Level	4
Jouyou Grade	3
Frequency	193
Components	千: thousand 里: ri; village; parent's home; league
Number of Strokes	9
Kanji Radical	里
Radical Number	166
Radical Strokes	7
Radical Reading	さと・さとへん
Traditional Form	(none)
Classification	会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword	heavy
Koohii Story 1	The first computer in the world was as heavy as thousand computers are now.
Koohii Story 2	To me it looks like a car with two extra wheels, like a truck. As it is a very heavy vehicle I suggest an image of a huge mining truck, like the yellow Liebherr T282B. Remember that the first "wheel" is a bit bent. http://www.primidi.com/2004/06/21.html.

Heavy Important Pile Respect Esteem Severe Heap Critical