Kanji1 / 9
律 kanji
rhythm, law, regulation, gauge, control
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
リツリチレツ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 律
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —道徳律moral law
- —因果律law of cause and effect; principle of causality
- —無規律undisciplined; disorganized; loose; slipshod
- —周期律periodic law
- —調律師piano tuner
- —成文律written law; statute law
- —法律学jurisprudence
- —法律家lawyer; jurist
- —法律案(legislative) bill
- —自然律natural law
- —排中律law of excluded middle
- —同一律law of identity; principle of identity
- —戒律宗Ritsu (school of Buddhism)
- —純正律just intonation; pure intonation
- —十二律ancient Chinese chromatic scale (primarily used in Japan for gagaku, etc.)
- —律旋法Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) similar to Dorian mode
- —律音階ritsu scale (anhemitonic pentatonic scale primarily used in gagaku: re, mi, so, la, ti)
- —律するto judge (on the basis of); to control; to discipline (oneself); to regulate
- —定旋律cantus firmus; plainsong; plainchant
- —矛盾律law of contradiction