| 245 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 326 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 311 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 155 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 224 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 161 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 266 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1017 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.16 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 227 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 227 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 115 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1802 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 4390 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2223 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2991 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1691 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 40132 | Morohashi |
| 3573 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 6207 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1675 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1805 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 136 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 330 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
heavy, important, esteem, respect, heap up, pile up, nest of boxes, -fold
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
193 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 重 【ジュウ】 jūbako, multi-tiered food box, heavy, serious, extreme, -fold, -ply
- 重圧 【ジュウアツ】 strong pressure, heavy pressure
- 九重 【ココノエ】 ninefold, imperial palace, the Court
- 加重 【カジュウ】 weighting (in averaging), aggravation
- 重複 【チョウフク】 duplication, repetition, overlapping, redundancy, restoration
- 重厚 【ジュウコウ】 profound, deep, grave, solid, dignified, stately, solemn, composed, substantial, massive
- 加重 【カジュウ】 weighting (in averaging), aggravation
- 九重 【ココノエ】 ninefold, imperial palace, the Court
Kun reading compounds
- 重 【え】 -fold, -ply
- 八重 【やえ】 multilayered, doubled
- 九重 【ここのえ】 ninefold, imperial palace, the Court
- 重い 【おもい】 heavy, weighty, heavy (feeling), depressed, gloomy, blue, uneasy, slow, sluggish, lumbering, ponderous, clumsy, important (position, responsibility, etc.), serious, grave, serious (punishment, illness, etc.), severe, critical, solid, established, dignified, sensible
- 重い腰を上げる 【おもいこしをあげる】 to get off one's backside, to bestir oneself
- 重り 【おもり】 weight, sinker
- 重ねる 【かさねる】 to pile up, to heap up, to stack up, to put on top of another, to repeat many times over, to go through repeatedly, to accumulate
- 重なる 【かさなる】 to be piled up, to lie on top of one another, to come one after another, to happen over and over, to pile up (e.g. stress), to accumulate, to overlap (each other), to occur at the same time, to happen simultaneously
- 主 【おも】 chief, main, principal, important, main secondary or supporting role (in kyogen)
- 重き 【おもき】 importance, emphasis, stress
- 身重 【みおも】 pregnant
- 気重 【きおも】 heavy-hearted
Readings
- Japanese names:
- さね、 しげ、 しげる
- Korean:
- jung
Spanish
- pesado
- importante
- apilar
- amontonar
Portuguese
- pesado
- empilhar
- pilha de caixas
- -dobrar
French
- lourd
- empiler
- entasser
- s'emboîter
- - couches
| 2272 | 2001 Kanji |
| 0a9.18 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 4-9-2 | SKIP code |
| 2-1-8 | SKIP code |
| 2010.4 | Four corner code |
| 1-29-37 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 91cd | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
1357 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 百葉箱 【ヒャクヨウバコ】 Stevenson screen (louvre-sided box housing for meteorological gauges), instrument shelter
- 書箱 【ショソウ】 bookcase
Kun reading compounds
- 箱 【はこ】 box, case, chest, package, pack, crate, car (of a train, etc.), shamisen case, shamisen, public building, community building, man who carries a geisha's shamisen, receptacle for human waste, feces (faeces), counter for boxes (or boxed objects)
- 箱入り 【はこいり】 cased, boxed, precious, cherished, girl who has been sheltered from the world, one's special talent
- リサイクル用の箱 【リサイクルようのはこ】 recycling bin, recycling box
- 契約の箱 【けいやくのはこ】 Ark of the Covenant
Readings
- Korean:
- sang
Spanish
- caja
- cofre
Portuguese
- caixa
- tórax
- caixa de papelão
- depósito
- carro de estrada de ferro
French
- boîte
- coffre
- caisse
- wagon
| 390 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 1703 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 944 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 3425 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 935 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 799 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 2383 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1091 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1142 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1060 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1486 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3362 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1741 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2366 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 951 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 26209 | Morohashi |
| 2711 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 4331 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 942 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1013 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 435 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 2379 | 2001 Kanji |
| 6f9.4 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-6-9 | SKIP code |
| 8896.3 | Four corner code |
| 1-40-02 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 7bb1 | Unicode hex code |