倭 — kanji meaning “Yamato”
倭
Yamato, ancient Japan
- Meanings
- Yamato, ancient Japan
- On'yomi
- ワ (wa)、イ (i)
- Kun'yomi
- やまと、したが.う
- Name readings
- まさ、やす
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- 9
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #2098 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 9
- Chinese reading
- wō — Chinese character page
Words with 倭
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 倭人 | わじん wajin | Japanese person |
| 倭国 | わこく wakoku | Japan |
| 倭寇 | わこう wakou | wokou; wakō; Japanese pirates who raided the Chinese and Korean coastlines between the 13th and 16th centuries |
| 倭王 | わおう waou | king of Yamato |
| 大倭 | おおやまと ooyamato | Japan |
| 倭色 | ウェセク weseku | Japanese style |
| 壬辰倭乱 | じんしんわらん jinshinwaran | Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598); Imjin war |
| 大陸倭語 | たいりくわご tairikuwago | Peninsular Japonic (postulated extinct language) |
| 倭玉篇 | わごくへん wagokuhen | Wagokuhen (c. 1489 Japanese kanji dictionary) |
| 倭人伝 | わじんでん wajinden | Wajinden (passages in Records of the Three Kingdoms describing the Wa people) |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.