Moto 覚: Memorize; Learn; RememberKanji meaning, readings, and the words that use it
- On'yomi
- カク
- Kun'yomi
- おぼ(える)、さ(ます)、さ(める)、さと(る)
- Level
- JLPT N3Jōyō, grade 4
- Words
- 273 in the dictionary
Words that use the on'yomi (カク)
- 感覚かんかくsense; sensation
- 覚悟かくごreadiness; preparedness
- 覚せい剤かくせいざいstimulant (e.g. psychoactive drugs like methamphetamine, ritalin, etc.)
- 自覚じかくself-consciousness; self-awareness
- 視覚しかくsense of sight; vision
- 発覚はっかくdetection (of a plot, fraud, etc.); discovery
- 味覚みかくtaste; palate
- 聴覚ちょうかくthe sense of hearing
- 錯覚さっかくoptical illusion; hallucination
- 幻覚げんかくhallucination; illusion
- 感覚器かんかくきsense organ
- 感覚的かんかくてきsensible; sensuous
- 才覚さいかくready wit; quick wits
- 時代感覚じだいかんかくsensitivity to the times; sense of the times
- 知覚ちかくperception; sensation
- 臭覚しゅうかくthe sense of smell
- 色覚しきかくsense of color; sense of colour
- 視聴覚しちょうかくsenses of seeing and hearing; audiovisual
- 覚醒かくせいwaking up; awakening
- 覚醒剤かくせいざいstimulant (e.g. psychoactive drugs like methamphetamine, ritalin, etc.)
- 触覚しょっかくsense of touch
- ゲーム感覚ゲームかんかく(with a) mindset as if one were playing a video game; thinking of (treating) something as though it were a game
- バランス感覚バランスかんかくsense of balance
- ロボットの視覚ロボットのしかくrobot vision
- 一次聴覚野いちじちょうかくやprimary auditory cortex
- 一生の不覚いっしょうのふかくgreatest mistake of one's life
- 不覚ふかくfailure; defeat
- 不覚にもふかくにもthough one didn't intend (expect) to
- 不覚の一投ふかくのいっとうpitcher's misjudgment (misjudgement)
- 不覚の涙ふかくのなみだcrying in spite of oneself
- 不覚をとるふかくをとるto suffer an embarrassing defeat
- 不覚を取るふかくをとるto suffer an embarrassing defeat
Words that use a kun'yomi
- 覚えおぼえmemory; sense
- 物覚えものおぼえmemory; ability to learn
- 目が覚めるめがさめるto wake up; to awake
- 目覚ましめざましalarm clock
- 目覚ましいめざましいremarkable; striking
- 目覚めめざめwaking
- 目覚めるめざめるto wake up; to awake
- 見覚えみおぼえremembrance; recollection
- 覚えるおぼえるto memorize; to memorise
- 覚ますさますto awaken; to arouse from sleep
- 覚めるさめるto wake; to wake up
- うろ覚えうろおぼえvague recollection; faint memory
- お目覚おめざtype of candy given to a child after it wakes up from a nap; wake-up sweets
- お目覚ましおめざましtype of candy given to a child after it wakes up from a nap; wake-up sweets
- そらで覚えるそらでおぼえるto learn by heart (rote); to memorize
- と覚しいとおぼしいthought to be; seen as
- ばかの一つ覚えばかのひとつおぼえone who knows little often repeats it
- まる覚えまるおぼえfull memorization; full memorisation
- もの覚えものおぼえmemory; ability to learn
- アホの一つ覚えアホのひとつおぼえone who knows little often repeats it
- コツを覚えるコツをおぼえるto learn the ropes; to get the knack
- 一つ覚えひとつおぼえthe one thing that is well-remembered
Other readings
- 覚書おぼえがきmemo; memorandum
- 目覚まし時計めざましどけいalarm clock
- あほうの一つ覚えアホのひとつおぼえone who knows little often repeats it
- あほの一つ覚えアホのひとつおぼえone who knows little often repeats it
- こつを覚えるコツをおぼえるto learn the ropes; to get the knack
- バカの一つ覚えばかのひとつおぼえone who knows little often repeats it
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