Meanings: station, train station
On Readings: エキ eki
Kun Readings:
Most Used Pronunciation: eki
JLPT Level: 4 (see all JLPT 4 kanji)
Grade: 3
Kanji Part:
Stroke Number: 14
  Level 4 Completion 102 / 103
   

Common jukugo
- えき まえ eki mae - in front of the station
- かく えき - Every station

Useful Examples
Japanese: 東京はいくつ目のですか?
Romaji: toukyou wa ikutsu me no eki desu ka?
English: How many stations until Tokyo?

Japanese: この電車は中野より先は各に停車する。
Romaji: kono densha wa nakano yori saki wa kakueki ni teisha suru.
English: This train stops at every station from Nakano on.

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Notes/Mnemonic
A lot of horses [馬] R at the station


Many example sentences are from the Tanaka Corpus as modified for use with WWWJDIC.