hit; this; appropriate

Builds 62 distinct compound words — ranked #66 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: トウ
訓 kun: あ.たる・あ.てる

Hitting the mark, hence being right or fitting. 本当 truth, 当然 naturally, 適当 suitable — or, colloquially, slapdash.

The ten most common compounds built on 当. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

62compounds built

1,517times those words occur

#65by productivity alone

#103by how often it turns up

Where 当 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 当. Each one opens its own map.

見see見当たる#11 時time; hour当時#14 本book; origin; main本当#21 前before; front当たり前#40 地ground; land当地#45 社company; shrine; society当社#81 然so; -ly当然#96

Words built on 当

本当ほんとう461 uses

当然とうぜん180 uses

当たるあたる126 uses

当時とうじ88 uses

当地とうち68 uses

相当そうとう51 uses

当てるあてる50 uses

当惑とうわく31 uses

当たり前あたりまえ30 uses

当社とうしゃ23 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.