so; -ly

Builds 35 distinct compound words — ranked #96 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ゼン・ネン
訓 kun: しか.り

Rarely alone. It ends adverbs meaning 'in that manner' — 全然 (not) at all, 当然 naturally, 突然 suddenly, 自然 nature.

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

35compounds built

1,800times those words occur

#154by productivity alone

#74by how often it turns up

Where 然 leads

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

自self自然#29 全whole; all全然#58 当hit; this; appropriate当然#66

Words built on 然

然う398 uses

突然とつぜん258 uses

然ししかし201 uses

当然とうぜん180 uses

全然ぜんぜん172 uses

偶然ぐうぜん172 uses

自然しぜん82 uses

然うすれば68 uses

然うした52 uses

同然どうぜん47 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.