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恩

Kindness
Stroke count: 10

Readings

On readingオン

Meanings

  1. kindness
  2. benefit
  3. blessing
  4. favor
  5. goodness
  6. graceRtK
  7. mercy

Homonyms

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Same reading (おん)
音 · sound

Popular Usage

恩恵

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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cause · pent in (囗) · large (大) · St. Bernard (犬) · heart (心)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 652

Compound words

彼は私の命を助けてくれたので非常に恩がある。
I owe him a great deal because he saved my life.tatoeba
彼は私の命の恩人だ。
I owe him my life.tatoeba
彼は恩師にまったく感謝していなかった。
He was far from thankful to his former teacher.tatoeba
彼に深い恩義がある。
I am deeply in debt to him.tatoeba
成政も信長の実力主義の恩恵を受けた一人である。
Narimasa was one of the vassals who benefited from meritocracy of Nobunaga.wiki
これが実現して200町歩もの農地が恩恵を受ける。
This proposal was executed and 200 chobu (hectares) of agricultural land benefited from his project.wiki

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

ありがとう、命の恩人だ
ありがとう、いのちのおんじんだThanks, you're my lifesaver.
友達にも、親戚にも、旧友にも、恩師にも、最愛のペットにも、誰にも会えなくなった。
ともだちにも、しんせきにも、きゅうゆうにも、おんしにも、さいあいのぺっとにも、だれにもあえなくなった。I can no longer meet my friends, relatives, old acquaintances, former teachers, or beloved pets.
恩人にお礼をする
おんじんにおれいをするI thank my benefactor.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

10 strokes

Kindness, debt of gratitude. 因 (support) + 心 (heart) — a heart remembering who held it up. 恩返し — repay a kindness.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 恩

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