更 – grow late, night watch, sit up late

7 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#861 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 更 means grow late, night watch, sit up late, of course, renew, renovate, again, more and more. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is コウ (kou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is さら、さら.に、ふ.ける、ふ.かす (sara, sarani, fukeru, fukasu). It is written with 7 strokes, under radical 曰 (no. 73).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	コウ	kou
Kun’yomi	さら	sara
Kun’yomi	さら.に	sarani
Kun’yomi	ふ.ける	fukeru
Kun’yomi	ふ.かす	fukasu

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 曰 (Kangxi radical 73). Components: ノ・一・日・田.

Words using 更

更にさらにfurthermore変更へんこうchange更けるふけるto get late今更いまさらnow (when it is already much too late)夜更しよふかしstaying up late夜更けよふけlate at night

Example sentences

その規則は絶対変更できない。

The rule is utterly inflexible.

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今更後悔しても無駄だ。

It's no use regretting it now.

Tatoeba #228554

我々は夜更けまで語り合った。

We talked late into the night.

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Kanji with the same radical

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