Kanji1 / 10
息 kanji
breath, respiration, son, interest (on money), rest, coming to an end
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ソク
Kun readings
いき
Words with 息
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —休息時間recess; break; breathing spell
- —窒息ガスchoking gas
- —無事息災safe and healthy; health and longevity
- —一病息災one who experiences a chronic ailment takes better care of his health and lives longer
- —小児喘息infantile asthma
- —延滞利息default interest
- —安息香酸benzoic acid
- —無病息災sound health
- —延命息災health and longevity; enjoying a long and healthy life being untouched by disaster
- —小心姑息timid and evasive (person); timid and makeshift (approach, measure, etc.)
- —消息不明untraceable; long lost; one's whereabouts being unknown
- —息災延命health and longevity; enjoying a long and healthy life being untouched by disaster
- —支払利息interest expense; interest paid
- —法定利息statutory interest; legal interest; interest set by law
- —生息環境habitat
- —遅延利息late payment interest; interest on late payments; default interest; interest on overdue accounts; penalty interest
- —喘息発作asthma attack; asthma exacerbation
- —無利息公債non interest-bearing bond
- —無利息証券non interest-bearing securities
- —無利息債務passive debt