bright; clear; next

Builds 48 distinct compound words — ranked #64 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: メイ・ミョウ
訓 kun: あ.かるい・あ.ける・あき.らか

Sun and moon together: brightness, and from there clarity. 説明 an explanation, 明日 tomorrow, 発明 an invention.

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

48compounds built

1,994times those words occur

#96by productivity alone

#67by how often it turns up

Where 明 leads

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

行go; conduct; line行方不明#3 日sun; day明日、明後日#5 不un-, not行方不明#36 方direction; method; person行方不明#38 発emit; depart; start発明#57 後after; behind明後日#63

Words built on 明

明日あした939 uses

説明せつめい342 uses

明るいあかるい109 uses

賢明けんめい83 uses

発明はつめい82 uses

証明しょうめい37 uses

明確めいかく30 uses

打ち明けるうちあける28 uses

行方不明28 uses

明後日みょうごにち28 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.