VocabularyJLPT N5 · core

厚い

あつい
hepburn atsui

thick (objects)

Part of speech · i-adjective

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Examples

  1. この辞書は厚いです。
    This dictionary is thick.
  2. 冬は厚い服を着ます。
    In winter I wear thick clothes.

Collocations

厚い本 (thick book)厚い服 (thick clothes)厚さ (thickness, noun)分厚い (very thick)薄い (usui-thin, opposite)

Mnemonic

厚い atsui-thick — i-adjective for THICKNESS (books, clothes, sliced things). Same Hepburn as 暑い (weather hot) and 熱い (object hot) but separate slug under v1.1 A-2. Opposite: 薄い usui-thin (batch 8). The kanji 厚 also abstract: 友情が厚い (deep friendship).

Quick check

  1. Which kanji is right for "thick book"?

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