Kanji1 / 6
字 kanji
character, letter, word, section of village
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
ジ
Kun readings
あざあざな-な
Words with 字
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —決まり字kimariji (comp. karuta); beginning characters that uniquely identify a poem in the Hyakunin Isshu
- —赤字路線loss-making line (railway, bus, etc.); unprofitable route
- —一文字笠flat sedge hat; bamboo hat
- —活字文化culture of the printed word; book culture
- —速記文字shorthand symbol; stenograph; stenographic character; shorthand script
- —対字ルビfurigana where kana is associated with each character of a compound
- —は文字いembarrassed; ashamed of
- —大文字草Saxifraga fortunei var. alpina (species of rockfoil flower)
- —赤文字系red letter style; cutesy fashion style named after fashion magazines featuring it (whose cover titles are printed in red or pink)
- —青文字系blue letter style; comparatively mature fashion style named after fashion magazines featuring it (whose cover titles are printed in blue)
- —字義通りliteral (meaning; of a word, etc.)
- —信号符字call sign (esp. maritime); distinctive letters
- —注音字母Bopomofo; Chinese transliteration system now used mainly in Taiwan
- —ニセ十字False Cross (asterism)
- —Ｖ字回復V-shaped recovery; sharp recovery
- —倍角文字double-size character; character with a doubled width and/or height
- —神官文字hieratic (ancient Egyptian script)
- —民衆文字demotic (ancient Egyptian script)
- —聖刻文字hieroglyph; hieroglyphics
- —神聖文字hieroglyph; hieroglyphics