Kanji1 / 2
力 kanji
power, strength, strong, strain, bear up, exert
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 2
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
リョクリキリイ
Kun readings
ちから
Words with 力
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —有力説popular theory; widely-accepted theory
- —既判力res judicata; res adjudicata; claim preclusion; exclusion of further legal action
- —確定力power of finality (of a legal decision, e.g. when a case is dismissed with prejudice)
- —適応力adaptability; capacity to adapt; ability to adjust
- —視力表eye chart; eyesight test chart; visual acuity chart
- —磁気力magnetic force; magnetism
- —知覚力perceptivity; perceptual ability
- —生権力biopower
- —重力圏gravitational sphere (of a celestial body); gravitational field
- —比推力specific impulse; specific thrust
- —教育力educational capability; education skills; educational power
- —中心力central force
- —耐力壁load-bearing wall; bearing wall
- —訴求力appeal (e.g. of an advertisement)
- —戦力外noninclusion in a team; not being chosen to play
- —摩擦力frictional force
- —最有力strongest (candidate); likeliest (winner); top (suspect)
- —浮揚力buoyancy; flotage; floatage
- —殺傷力lethality; killing effectiveness
- —交渉力bargaining ability; bargaining power; ability to negotiate