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別 kanji
separate, branch off, diverge, fork, another, extra, specially
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
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Kun readings
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Words with 別
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —皇別clans supposedly descended from the imperial family
- —蕃別clans supposedly descended from foreign lineage (i.e. Chinese or Korean)
- —別体different form; different shape
- —部別sorting
- —別様different
- —別火cooking over a second fire to prevent contamination from one's everyday fire for performing Shinto rites; cooking over a second fire to prevent contamination from mourning people, menstruating women, etc.
- —級別grading; classification
- —祝別consecration (of a person or thing, in Catholicism); sanctification; prayer of sanctification; ritual of consecration
- —別字different letter; different character; different spelling
- —別訳variation; different version; another version
- —別電separate telegram; different telegram
- —別掲displaying separately; referencing elsewhere
- —別学single-sex education
- —別墅holiday home; country retreat
- —別日separate day; another day
- —語別part of speech
- —別姓different surname; married couple maintaining separate surnames
- —別語different word; another word
- —別注special order; custom order
- —別案different plan; separate idea; another proposal; alternative suggestion