部
Components

輩 means 'colleague'

Animation / stroke order not available.
CHALLENGE
BUILD
DRAW
MATCH
KEYWORDS
LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
Strokes : 15    Frequency: 1279   JLPT: N1    Usefulness: 5    Study set: 5-17    Grade: 8   Intermediate lesson: -    Beginner lesson: -   Begins 1 word   Used in 35 words   Used in 2 names   Not used as a component
Jōyō (常用)
Common readings
On
   ハイ
Additional readings
Kun    やから party (of people), tribe   やかい   ともがら   -ばら
Variants
辈 (Chinese)  
Notes
A Joy o' Kanji essay is available for 輩 - click the badge to download
Find out about superior-inferior relationships in schools and workplaces and discover what upends that “seesaw.” Learn to say, “He is quite popular with his peers,” “She was promoted over her seniors,” “He is my junior by three years,” “He forgets his position and speaks impertinently to his seniors,” and “Many talented people emerged toward the end of the Edo period.”
View in the essay collection    All Joy o' Kanji essays  
Components
⿱  非 mistake  車 car  
Explore these components visually on The Kanji Map ⇗
Mastery
LOG IN to view kanji mastery data
Flashcards
LOG IN to view your flashcards
Most useful words by reading
In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 輩 is used 2 times, read 1 way (with 1 variation).
Across all words in Japanese, 輩 is used 32 times, read 4 ways (with 2 variations).
Showing:
ハイ : 17 words FIND ALL
こ う は い 0
noun
junior (at work, school, etc.); younger people; younger student  (see also: 先輩)
(click the word for examples and links)
ハイ (read as ぱい) : 10 words FIND ALL
せ ん ぱ い 0
noun
senior (at work or school); superior; elder; older graduate; progenitor; old-timer  (see also: 後輩)
(click the word for examples and links)
ハイ (read as ばい) : 1 word FIND ALL
ほ う ば い 0
noun
comrade; friend; associate; colleague; fellow student; fellow apprentice
(click the word to view an additional 1 form, examples and links)
やから : 2 words FIND ALL
ふ て い の や か ら 0
noun
lawless people; gang; malcontents; recalcitrants
(click the word for examples and links)
ともがら : 1 word FIND ALL
と も が ら 0
noun
comrade; fellow
(click the word to view an additional 1 form, examples and links)
-ばら (read as ばら) : 1 word FIND ALL
Most common form: 原
noun (suffix)
suffixed to words indicating a class of people to create a plural (esp. in impolite contexts)
(click the word to view an additional 2 forms, examples and links)
Quick links
QUICK SEARCH WORD SEARCH KANJI SEARCH COMPONENT SEARCH Find kanji that refer to 輩
More information
Wiktionary ⇗ | Unicode.org ⇗ | Google Japan ⇗ | Hanziyuan etymology ⇗
Additional data
Henshall: 1688  Joy o' Kanji : 1688  Key to Kanji: - 

Cascading kanji view

輩
ハイ    colleague   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
非
ヒ   mistake
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
車
シャ   くるま car   
Problem with this kanji? Question or comment? Please CONTACT US.
Kanshudo is your AI Japanese tutor, and your constant companion on the road to mastery of the Japanese language. To get started learning Japanese, just follow the study recommendations on your Dashboard. You can use Quick search (accessible using the icon at the top of every page) to look up any Japanese word, kanji or grammar point, as well as to find anything on Kanshudo quickly. For an overview, take the tour.
Search results include information from a variety of sources, including Kanshudo (kanji mnemonics, kanji readings, kanji components, vocab and name frequency data, grammar points, examples), JMdict (vocabulary), Tatoeba (examples), Enamdict (names), KanjiVG (kanji animations and stroke order), and Joy o' Kanji (kanji and radical synopses). Translations provided by Google's Neural Machine Translation engine. For more information see credits.
×