JLPT level N5
Kanji 二 — "Two"
Here is what 二 means, how it is read, what it is built from, and a story that makes "Two" stick.
How it is read
On'yomi
に
the reading borrowed from Chinese — usually appears in compound words
Kun'yomi
ふたつ
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.
⼀ One
二 Two
The story
Two One lines stacked together make Two — as simple as it gets!
- ⼀ One
A single stroke counts as the number One, see? Japanese is that simple!
Words that use 二
9 of 9 words in the app that contain this kanji — the most common ones first.
- 二人 ふたり two people
- 二度と にどと never again (with negative)
- 二 に two
- 二つ ふたつ two things
- 二十歳 はたち 20 years old
- 二次会 にじかい second party
- 二日 ふつか 2nd day, 2 days
- 二十日 はつか 20th day
- 真っ二つ まっぷたつ in two equal parts
Want 二 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.
