会 — how to write the kanji for “meeting”

会 means “meeting”, “meet” and “party”; it is a JLPT N4 kanji, taught in second grade in Japan. In newspapers it is one of the hundred most used kanji (4th). KANJIDIC2 gives it 2 on readings and 3 kun readings, so the word decides how you say it. Its parts sit stacked: 人 (“person”, its radical), strokes 1–2; 云 (“say”), strokes 3–6, each finished before the next. On its own it is the word kai, “meeting; assembly”. Its common words take the reading kai: 会員 (“member”), 会社 (“company”), 会見 (“interview”) and 会談 (“talks”). Chinese reads it huì, “can”, at HSK 1.

Strokes

6

JLPT

N4

Radical

人 (“person”)

On

カイ, エ

Kun

あ·わせる, あ·う, あつ·まる