Kanji1 / 17
厳 kanji
stern, strictness, severity, rigidity
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 17
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ゲンゴン
Kun readings
おごそかきびしいいかめしいいつくし
Variant forms
嚴Words with 厳
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —端厳correct and solemn
- —戒厳martial law
- —厳責strong reprimand; rebuke
- —厳美渓Genbi Gorge (Ichinoseki-shi, Iwate-ken)
- —厳冬期coldest period
- —尊厳死death with dignity; natural death (as opposed to extending one's life unnaturally with life support)
- —厳密解exact solution
- —厳罰化toughening the law; making the law stricter
- —厳戒令martial law
- —厳正科学exact science
- —厳正中立strict neutrality
- —厳としてresolutely; determinedly; strictly; authoritatively; solemnly; gravely; starkly; undeniably
- —火気厳禁total fire ban; no source of ignition permitted; no open flame; flammables!
- —謹厳実直sober and honest
- —厳寒の候the coldest season (weather)
- —厳重注意reprimand; stern warning
- —折曲厳禁do not fold; do not bend
- —厳戒態勢high alert; a state of high alert; on alert
- —土足厳禁shoes strictly prohibited
- —厳にするto strengthen; to fortify; to secure