JLPT level N5
Kanji 七 — "Seven"
Here is what 七 means, how it is read, what it is built from, and a story that makes "Seven" stick.
How it is read
On'yomi
しち
the reading borrowed from Chinese — usually appears in compound words
Kun'yomi
ななつ
the native Japanese reading — usually appears when the kanji stands alone
What it is made of
How to remember it
Kanji are not random strokes. Learn the parts and the whole becomes easy. Put the parts together into one picture. The stranger it is, the harder it is to forget.
七 Seven
七 Seven
The story
Same here — the kanji Seven and its component are one and the same!
- 七 Seven
Try rotating this component 180 degrees and it becomes the number Seven!
Words that use 七
5 of 5 words in the app that contain this kanji — the most common ones first.
- 七日 なのか 7th day, 7 days
- 七 しち seven
- 七つ ななつ seven things
- 「七人の侍」 「しちにんのさむらい」 'The Seven Samurai', a classic movie by Akira Kurosawa
- 七夕祭り たなばたまつり the Star Festival
Want 七 to still be there next month?
Reading it once is not remembering it. The app brings each kanji back right before you would have forgotten it.
