着

wear; arrive

Builds 37 distinct compound words — ranked #93 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: チャク・ジャク
訓 kun: き.る・つ.く・つ.ける

Two senses joined by the idea of something coming to rest on a place: wearing, and arriving. 到着 arrival, 着物 a kimono, 落ち着く to calm down.

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

37compounds built

1,672times those words occur

#139by productivity alone

#85by how often it turns up

Where 着 leads

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

物thing着物#8 上above; up上着#16 無nothing; without無頓着#39 実fruit; truth; actual着実#70 水water水着#89

Words built on 着

着くつく694 uses

着るきる338 uses

到着とうちゃく253 uses

上着うわぎ97 uses

着物きもの29 uses

着陸ちゃくりく26 uses

たどり着くたどりつく25 uses

着実ちゃくじつ21 uses

試着19 uses

愛着あいちゃく14 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.