Rank Kanji Meaning(s)
1 to incorporate, to fill (a vessel) with
2 to herd, to corner, to go hard, to run on (e.g. lines in printing)
3 つつ to wrap up, to cover, to conceal (a feeling), to give (money in an envelope; as a wedding gift, funeral offering, etc.)
4 かこ to surround, to besiege, to play (go, shogi, etc.)
5 to roll up, to involve
6 to bring in, to approach (someone) with (a proposal, offer, problem, etc.), to bring (to another stage)
7 たの to request, to call, to entrust to, to rely on
8 見込みこ to anticipate, to place confidence in, to find promising, to set one’s eye on (e.g. prey)
9 ぬす to steal, to plagiarize, to do stealthily, to do during scant time
10 したしむ to be intimate with
11 to insert
12 to read, to recite (e.g. a sutra), to predict, to decipher, to count
13 のぞ to desire, to expect (of someone), to see
14 to feel down, to be in a slump (business, economy, etc.), to fall into (e.g. a hole)
15 はば to keep someone from doing
16 きざ to mince, to carve, to tick away (time), to etch (into one’s mind)
17 あやぶむ to fear
18 たのしむ to enjoy, to look forward to
19 to pile up, to load (car, ship, etc.), to acquire
20 to cross (legs or arms), to put together, to braid, to grapple
21 この to like
22 意気込いきご to be enthusiastic (about)
23 なや to be worried
24 ふくらむ to expand
25 to prune, to reap (a crop) and put into storage
26 なや to be sluggish
27 to make a payment via bank deposit transfer, to discard another player’s winning tile
28 ひそ to lurk
29 to step on, to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil), to experience, to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
30 そそ to pour in (liquids), to pour in (money)
31 to invest in
32 いとな to run (a business), to carry out, to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)
33 やす to be absent, to rest, to go to bed, to stop doing some ongoing activity for a time
34 to inhale, to absorb
35 to fill in (field, entry, etc.), to post a message (e.g. on a bulletin-board), to store, to write (data)
36 はい to go into, to become complicated
37 to take in, to capture (e.g. image), to win over, to defraud of, to be busy
38 to drive in (a nail, stake, etc.), to hit (a ball, etc.), to fire into, to input (data)
39 to load (with goods, cargo)
40 to throw into
41 to bite into (e.g. rope into skin), to eat into
42 のぞ to wait eagerly for
43 かなしむ to be sad
44 おく to send in
45 怒鳴どな to storm in with a yell
46 すす to advance, to precede, to make progress, to deepen
47 しむ to be frugal, to value, to regret (e.g. a loss), to be unwilling
48 はさ to hold between (e.g. one’s fingers, chopsticks), to put between, to catch (e.g. a finger in a door), to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
49 to push into, to break in
50 なつかしむ to yearn for (someone, something)