友“friend” Kanjitomo / yū
How to write 友
Meaning and readings
Meaning
friend
Onyomi (音読み)
- ゆう yū
Chinese reading
Kunyomi (訓読み)
- とも tomo
Japanese reading
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Human-reviewed sentence pairs from the Tatoeba corpus, with readings shown above the kanji.
メル友になりませんか？
Do you want to become internet friends?
友 (とも)
あなたの友だちによろしく。
Say hello to your friends.
友だち (ともだち)
親友とはなんでも話すことができる。
I can talk about anything with my best friend.
親友 (しんゆう)
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