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利 kanji
profit, advantage, benefit
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
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On readings
リ
Kun readings
きく
Words with 利
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —利敵benefitting the enemy; benefiting the enemy
- —私利self-interest; personal profit
- —月利monthly interest
- —高利high interest rate
- —利刀sharp sword
- —浮利easy money; quick profit
- —奇利unexpected benefit; sudden profit
- —利生blessings bestowed by the Buddha on all living creatures
- —茶利humorous words; funny gesture; funny part (in a puppet show, kabuki, etc.); woman's temple hair
- —公利public good; public profit
- —利剣sharp sword
- —炉利prepubescent girl; young girl; childlike young woman; lolicon; sexual attraction to prepubescent girls; male pedophile; male pedophilia
- —利雪effective use of snow (as a resource)
- —地利locational advantage; advantageous position; products from the land (farm output, timber, minerals, etc.); land rent
- —付利interest on excess reserves; IOER
- —利達fame; distinction; rise; advancement
- —利確profit-taking
- —金利鞘interest margin
- —軍荼利Kundali (tantric Buddhist deity)
- —瀉利塩epsomite; Epsom salt; magnesium sulfate