日本語道場

Nihongo Dojo — N3 → N2

Kanji

N3

Meaningsleather, skin, reform, become serious
On'yomiカク
Kun'yomiかわ
Strokes9
Radical

Compounds

  • history, development

  • reform, reorganization, innovation, reformation

  • revolution, 58th year of the sexagenary cycle (in Onmyōdō)

Example sentences

  • We will push through organizational reform.

  • Shall we go for a leather-covered sofa? A cloth-covered sofa?

  • Open source is the engine that drives technological innovation.

  • Good leather will wear for years.

  • She gave me a bag made of leather.

  • The reformers were subject to every attack from the Establishment.

  • Kamui no Ken was a sort of samurai/ninja story set during the transition of the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the re-establishment of Japan under the Emperor Meiji in 1868.

  • The revolutionary government, while raising troops from the masses and fighting a defensive battle, established a republic and executed Louis XVI.