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恩 kanji
grace, kindness, goodness, favor, mercy, blessing, benefit
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
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NoneWords with 恩
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —恩を売るto demand gratitude; to do something for someone in order to create an obligation of gratitude from that person
- —恩恵期間period of grace (e.g. in which merchant vessels are allowed to leave a belligerent nation's port after an outbreak of war)
- —忘恩行為act of ingratitude
- —命の恩人lifesaver; person who saved one's life
- —恩を返すto return a favor; to pay it back; to defeat one's senior stablemate
- —報恩謝徳repaying kindness with gratitude
- —大恩教主Gautama Buddha; Shakyamuni; the historical Buddha
- —恩に着せるto demand gratitude; to make a favour of something; to remind of a favour done to someone; to emphasize the favour one has done
- —恩恵を被るto share in the benefit
- —恩を忘れるto be ungrateful
- —恩を着せるto make one feel grateful
- —恩にかけるto demand gratitude; to make a favour of something; to remind of a favour done to someone; to emphasize the favour one has done
- —恩を受けるto be indebted; to be under an obligation
- —恩を仇で返すto return evil for good; to return a favour with spite (favor)
- —恩寵を享けるto enjoy (a person's) favor (favour)
- —恩返しをするto return a favor (favour); to repay
- —あふるる恩寵Grace Abounding (autobiography by John Bunyan)
- —恩着せがましいpatronizing; expecting gratitude in return; acting like one is doing someone a favor; condescending
- —仇を恩で報いるto repay meanness with kindness
- —親の恩は子で送るone's debt to one's parents is best repaid by giving them grandchildren