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七 kanji
seven
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 2
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
シチ
Kun readings
ななななつなの
Words with 七
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —五七五five-seven-five syllable verse (haiku, senryu, etc.)
- —七宝文shippō pattern (of overlapping circles)
- —一七日seventh day after a person's death; first seven-day period after a person's death; seven days; one week
- —七島藺Shichito matgrass (Cyperus malaccensis)
- —七芒星heptagram; septagram
- —七支刀shichishitō; Seven-Branched Sword; ancient ceremonial iron sword with six branch-like protrusions kept at Isonokami Shrine
- —七堂伽藍complete seven-structured temple compound
- —七分三分seven to three (chances)
- —七分搗きseventy percent polished rice
- —北斗七星the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow
- —七宝焼きcloisonne ware
- —七転八倒tossing oneself about in great pain; writhing in agony
- —七生報国unfailing devotion to one's country; serving one's country for seven lives
- —七難八苦the Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains; a series of disasters
- —七言絶句poem of four lines, each of seven (Chinese) characters
- —七言律詩poem of eight lines, each of seven (Chinese) characters
- —七十古希men seldom live to be seventy; few people live to be seventy
- —七公三民land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent
- —七珍万宝the seven treasures and many other precious things; all the treasures in the world
- —川崎七分type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up seven-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg