The kanji 依: meaning, readings and stroke order
依
- Meaning
- depend on
- On reading
- イ i、エ* e
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 人 man, human
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- dựa vào, nhờ (y)
- Japanese
- たよる。もとに する。
- Korean
- 의지하다, 따르다 (의)
- Chinese
- 依靠、依据
Readings, words and example sentences
イ i · on reading
依頼
request, asking someone to do a job
仕事を 依頼します。
I ask someone to take on a job.
* marks a less common reading, usually learnt from junior high on.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.