軟 – soft

11 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1269 in newspaper frequencyN2 vocabulary

The kanji 軟 means soft. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ナン (nan); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is やわ.らか、やわ.らかい (yawaraka, yawarakai). It is written with 11 strokes, under radical 車 (no. 159).

Stroke order

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

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ナン	nan
Kun’yomi	やわ.らか	yawaraka
Kun’yomi	やわ.らかい	yawarakai

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: 車 (Kangxi radical 159). Components: 欠・車.

Words using 軟

軟らかいやわらかいsoft柔軟じゅうなんflexible

Example sentences

考え方は柔軟でなければならない。

You must be flexible in your thinking.

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Kanji with the same radical

軍転車輸輪軽載較輝軸輩軒軌

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