日本語道場

Nihongo Dojo — N3 → N2

Kanji

N2

Meaningstouch, contact, adjoin, piece together
On'yomiセツ、ショウ
Kun'yomi
Strokes11
Radical

Compounds

  • reception (e.g. of visitors), dealing with

  • patching (clothing), darning, cobbling together (other people's writings, thoughts, etc.), gathering

  • to touch, to come in contact with, to border on, to adjoin

  • inoculation, vaccination

  • close contest, close match, close game, close race

  • connection, attachment, union, join

  • point of tangency, point of contact, (electrical) contact, point of contact (between)

Example sentences

  • We will decide on hiring after the interview.

  • You just have to understand what sort of thing the suffix '-osity' is.

  • He found it very hard to keep the conversation going.

  • My internet connection was cut off.

  • The two countries are closely related to each other.

  • The interview went off so well that he got the job.

  • You'll have to play it by ear at the interview.

  • What he thought was bound up with Buddhism.