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Heavy Important Pile Respect Esteem Severe Heap Critical

Kanji
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
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.

Tags: grade3, jlpt.n4, kanjifreq1-250, kanji_physical.properties_miscellaneous

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