的

-ic, -ish; target

Builds 185 distinct compound words — ranked #33 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: テキ
訓 kun: まと

A suffix turning a noun into an adjective, roughly English -ic or -al — 経済的 economical, 一般的 general. Extremely productive: it attaches to almost any noun.

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

185compounds built

1,633times those words occur

#6by productivity alone

#87by how often it turns up

Where 的 leads

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

人person個人的#1 一one一般的#2 会meet; association社会的#13 本book; origin; main基本的#21 力power魅力的#52 目eye; ordinal marker目的#60 社company; shrine; society社会的#81

Words built on 的

的てき172 uses

目的もくてき154 uses

魅力的61 uses

一般的60 uses

経済的35 uses

社会的29 uses

個人的29 uses

基本的28 uses

積極的23 uses

徹底的てっていてき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.