熟 – mellow, ripen, mature

15 strokesTaught in grade 6#1415 in newspaper frequencyN2 vocabulary

The kanji 熟 means mellow, ripen, mature, acquire skill. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ジュク (juku); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is う.れる (ureru). It is written with 15 strokes, under radical 火 (no. 86).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ジュク	juku
Kun’yomi	う.れる	ureru

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: 火 (Kangxi radical 86). Components: 丶・九・口・子・亠・杰.

Words using 熟

熟語じゅくごkanji compound成熟せいじゅくmaturity未熟みじゅくunripe

Example sentences

できるだけたくさん熟語を暗記しなさい。

Learn as many idioms as possible by heart.

Tatoeba #202342

進んで責任を取るということは成熟の印である。

Willingness to take responsibility is a sign of maturity.

Tatoeba #144718

彼のフランス語の知識は未熟だ。

His knowledge of French is poor.

Tatoeba #118257

Kanji with the same radical

点無然火熱爆為燃焦災焼照炎煙炭烈

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.