運 – carry, luck, destiny

12 strokesTaught in grade 3#255 in newspaper frequencyN4 vocabulary

The kanji 運 means carry, luck, destiny, fate, lot, transport, progress, advance. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ウン (un); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is はこ.ぶ (hakobu). It is written with 12 strokes, under radical 辵 (no. 162).

Stroke order

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

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ウン	un
Kun’yomi	はこ.ぶ	hakobu

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: 辵 (Kangxi radical 162). Components: 込・車・冖.

Words using 運

運動うんどうexercise運転うんてんoperation (of a machine)運ぶはこぶto carry運転手うんてんしゅdriver運うんfortune幸運こううんgood luck運河うんが(navigable) canal不運ふうんmisfortune運営うんえいmanagement運送うんそうtransport運賃うんちん(passenger) fare運搬うんぱんtransport運命うんめいfate運輸うんゆtransportation運用うんようmaking use of海運かいうんmaritime transport

Example sentences

その運動をして若返った。

The exercise took years off me.

Tatoeba #212292

堅実な草の根レベルの運動を築きあげることに集中しなければならない。

We must focus on building a solid grass-roots movement.

Tatoeba #175408

物理学は物質、運動、エネルギーの科学であると定義することができる。

Physics can be defined as the science of matter, motion, and energy.

Tatoeba #83731

Kanji with the same radical

連選通進近道過送違述追退辺造達週

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