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史 kanji
history, chronicle
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
シ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 史
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —秘史secret history; hidden history; unknown historical facts
- —有史recorded in history; historical
- —青史(written) history
- —情史love story; romance
- —戦史military history; military annals
- —外史unofficial history
- —略史brief history
- —経史Chinese classics (ethics, politics, and history)
- —先史prehistory
- —逸史anecdotal history
- —漁史suffix added after a writer's pen name
- —稗史people's history (written for the king of China; usu. written as a novel)
- —史記Shiji (first of China's 24 dynastic histories); Records of the Grand Historian
- —史生government official next in rank to the sakan (ritsuryō system)
- —史要outline of history; essentials of history
- —党史history of a (political) party
- —書史book (esp. Confucian classics and historical records); history of books; history of calligraphy
- —詩史history of poetry (esp. Chinese); history recorded in the form of poetry
- —私史non-official history; privately composed history
- —校史school history; history of a school