Kanji: 父

    • Meaning : father
    • ON reading :
    • KUN reading : ちち
    • Nanori :
    • Stroke count : 4
    • Frequency of use ranking : 646
    • Jouyou grade level : 2
    • JLPT : 4
    • Radical :

Words containing that kanji:


  • さん | おさん | さん | さん - おじいさん - grandfather | male senior-citizen
  • さん | おさん - おとうさん - father
  • - おもうさま - father (used by children of court nobles and noble families)
  • ちゃん | ちゃん - じいちゃん - grandfather (may be used after name as honorific) | male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)
  • - いふ - different father
  • - かふちょうせい - patriarchal authority
  • - がいそふ - maternal grandfather
  • - がくふ - (man's) father-in-law/father of one's wife
  • | - かじか | とふぎょ | カジカ - sculpin (any fish of family Cottidae, inc. the bullheads and the miller's-thumb) | Japanese fluvial sculpin (fish, Cottus pollux)
  • - ぎふ - father-in-law/foster father/stepfather
  • - きょうふ - godfather/sponsor | church fathers
  • - けいふ | ままちち - stepfather
  • さん | さん | さん - おじさん - uncle | old man/mister (vocative) | manybar goatfish (Parupeneus multifasciatus)
  • - げんぷ - your honored father/your honoured father
  • - しふ - fatherly master
  • - ちちのみこと - father
  • - そうそふぼ - great-grandparents
  • - じふ - affectionate father
  • - じっぷ - real (own) father
  • さん - ひいおじいさん - great-grandfather
  • さん | さん - じいさん - grandfather (may be used after name as honorific) | male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honoriffic)
  • | | - おやじ | ろうや | しんぷ - one's father/old man/one's boss
  • - しんぷ - Catholic priest/abbe
  • - ちちぶさんじゅうさんしょ - 34 (originally 33) sacred places in and around Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture
  • - せんぷ - deceased father
  • - そふぼ - grandparents
  • - そふ | じじ | じい | おおじ | おじ | そぶ - grandfather | old man | kyogen mask used for the role of an old man
  • - そんぷ - your father
  • - けいふぼ - (one's) step-parents
  • - だいふ - godfather
  • - じしんかみなりかじおやじ - earthquakes, thunder, fires, fathers (this proverb compares the traditional Japanese father with other things which are generally feared)
  • - てんぷ - Heavenly Father
  • - おとおじ - parent's younger brother/uncle
  • - どうふぼ - the same parents
  • - おじき - uncle (younger than one's parent)
  • - だいふ - father
  • - おじ - (used with suffix -san or -sama) endearing term for unrelated older man/(with suffix -san) term used by a child to address unrelated adult male
  • - ふけい - guardians/parents and older brothers
  • - ちちうえ - father (esp. used in samurai families prior to the Meiji period)
  • - ちちのひ - Father's Day
  • - ふし - father and child (son)
  • - ちちかた - father's side of family
  • - ちち - father
  • - ふけい - agnate
  • - ふぼ | ちちはは - father and mother/parents
  • - ふけいかい - parents' association
  • - ちちおや - father
  • | お | おさま - おとうさま - father
  • - ぼうそふ - deceased (one's late) grandfather
  • なるさま - ちちなるかみさま - God the Father
  • - ようふ - foster father/adoptive father
  • | - そうそふ | ひいじじ | ひじじ | ひおおじ - great-grandfather/great-granddad/great-grandad
  • | - かくぶつ - fourspine sculpin (species of fish, Cottus kazika)
  • | - おおおじ - granduncle
  • - おじ | はくふ - uncle (older than one's parent)
  • - おじ | しゅくふ - uncle (younger than one's parent)
  • - ぼうふ - my deceased father/my late father
  • さん - とうさん - father
  • - こうそふ - great-great-grandfather
  • - ろうふ - old father
  • - がんこおやじ - stubborn (obstinate) father/pig-headed old man
  • - かみなりおやじ - snarling old man/irascible old man
  • - ふそでんらい - hereditary/patrimonial/handed down from generation to generation
  • - ふくん | ちちぎみ - father
  • - ふろう - (village) elder
  • - ふしそうでん - transmission of the secrets of an art, craft, trade or learning from father to son
  • - ちちご | ててご - (another's respected) father
  • - ちちなしご | ててなしご - fatherless or illegitimate child
  • - ふせい - paternity
  • つあん | つぁん - おとっつぁん | おとっつあん - father (term commonly used until the end of the Meiji period)/Dad
  • - ふせいあい - paternal love
  • - ふそ - ancestors
  • - ふぼかい - a parents' association
  • - ふけん - paternal rights
  • ちゃん - おじいちゃん - grandpa/grandad
  • - ふしかんけいかくていけんさ - paternity test
  • - かふ - one's father
  • - ぎりのちち - father-in-law/foster father/stepfather
  • - こくふ - father of one's country
  • - ようふぼ - adoptive parents
  • - たぬきおやじ - sly (cunning) old man
  • - ふしかてい - motherless family
  • - おじき - uncle (older than one's parent)
  • - げんしぶつりがくのちち - father of atomic physics
  • - だいそふ - great-grandfather
  • わりとして - ちちのかわりとして - in place of one's father
  • わってう - ちちおやにかわっていう - to speak for one's father
  • る - ちちおやのいこうをかさにきる - to shelter oneself under one's father's influence
  • - ふぼのもと - under one's parents roof