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                            | Kanken Level: |  |  
                            | Grade: | Taught during the 3rd grade in Japan |  
                            | Radical: |  |  
                            | Meaning: | 
                                    Heavy, heap up, pile up, nest of boxes, -fold                                 |  
                            | Usage: | Appears very frequently in Japanese newspapers; only about 200 kanji are used more often. |  
                                             
                                
                                    
                                        | JLPT Level | Word | Meaning |  
                                        | N5 | 重い | Heavy |  
                                        | N3 |  | precious, valuable |  
                                        | N3 |  | importance, stress, serious consideration |  
                                        | N3 |  | serious, important, grave, weighty |  
                                        | N3 |  | important, momentous, essential, principal, major |  
                                        | N3 |  | prudence, care, caution |  
                                        | N3 |  | respect, esteem, regard |  
                                        | N2 | 重たい | heavy, massive, serious |  
                                        | N2 | 重なる | to be piled up, lie on top of one another, overlap each other |  
                                        | N2 | 重ねる | to pile up, to put something on another, to heap up, to add, to repeat |  |  |  
                                        | N2 |  | strict, rigour, severe, firm |  
                                        | N2 |  | seriously ill, serious condition, critical state |  
                                        | N2 |  | important point, lay stress on, colon, emphasis |  
                                        | N2 |  | director, high executive |  
                                        | N2 |  | (1) weight, (2) heavyweight boxer |  
                                        | N2 |  | gravity |  
                                        | N1 | 重 | -fold, -ply |  
                                        | N1 | 重なる | main, principal, important |  
                                        | N1 |  | heavy responsibilities, director |  
                                        | N1 | 重んじる | to respect, to honor, to esteem, to prize |  |  |  
                                        | N1 | 重んずる | to honor, to respect, to esteem, to prize |  
                                        | N1 |  | duplication, repetition, overlapping, redundancy, restoration |  
                                        | N1 |  | priceless treasure, convenience, usefulness |  
                                        | N1 |  | specific gravity |  |