今 – vocab dash

Keyword

now

Frequency: #49
Strokes: 4
Grade: 2
JLPT (old): N4
Heisig: 1711

Readings

コン64%

いま36%

Mnemonic

A giggle drifts up from beneath the sloped roof, each katakana fu louder than the last; the killer is already in the attic, and he's coming now.

Stroke order

Composed of

亼sloped roof ㇇katakana fu

Used in kanji

念a sense of 含include 陰unseen location 琴harp 吟recite in a singing voice 酓妗wife of mother's brother 岑peak 芩salt marsh plant 昑bright 矜pride 衿lapel 涔river in Shaanxi 衾quilt 梣ash (tree)訡to chant 貪covet 鈐lock 黔black

Used in vocabulary

今いま

now; the present time; just now; soon; immediately; another; more

Noun

今日きょう

today; this day

Noun

今こん回かい

this time; now

Noun

今こん月げつ

this month

Noun

今こん後ご

from now on; hereafter

Noun

今年ことし

this year

Noun

今こん度ど

this time; now; next time; another time; shortly; soon; recently; lately; the other day

Noun

今こん季き

this season

Noun

今こん日にちは

hello; good day; good afternoon

Interjection

今こん夜や

this evening; tonight

Noun

今こん春しゅん

this spring; spring this year

Noun

今こん年ねん度ど

this year; this fiscal year; this school year

Noun

今こん週しゅう

this week

Noun

今いままで

until now; till now; up to now; up to the present; so far

Adverb

今いま更さら

now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again

Adverb

今朝けさ

this morning

Noun

今こん晩ばんは

good evening

Interjection

今いまや

now (esp. in contrast to the past); now at last; at present; right now

Adverb

今こん秋しゅう

this autumn; this fall; autumn of this year

Noun

今いま頃ごろ

about this time; about now

Noun

今こん夏か

this summer; next summer; last summer

Noun

只ただ今いま

I'm home!; I'm back!; it's me!; now; at present; at the moment; just now; a moment ago; at once; right away; …

Interjection

今いま一いち

not quite (right); not very good; somewhat (lacking)

Adverb

今こん期き

the present term; the present session

Noun