物

thing

Builds 143 distinct compound words — ranked #8 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ブツ・モツ
訓 kun: もの

A physical thing, as against 事 which is an abstract one. 荷物 luggage, 建物 a building, 食べ物 food.

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

143compounds built

5,587times those words occur

#9by productivity alone

#15by how often it turns up

Where 物 leads

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

食eat; food食べ物#32 語language; word; tell物語#53 動move動物#56

Words built on 物

物もの2,732 uses

動物どうぶつ287 uses

食べ物たべもの187 uses

建物たてもの178 uses

買い物かいもの152 uses 荷物にもつ115 uses

贈り物おくりもの95 uses

物価ぶっか88 uses

植物しょくぶつ86 uses

物語ものがたり84 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.