Kanji1 / 15
慰 kanji
consolation, amusement, seduce, cheer, make sport of, comfort, console
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
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Kun readings
なぐさめるなぐさむ
Words with 慰
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —慰安Popularsolace; relaxation
- —慰問Popularvisit to console someone; giving comfort (to the sick, injured, etc.); expressing condolences (sympathy, concern, etc.); sympathy call
- —慰謝Popularconsolation
- —慰霊Popularconsoling the spirits of the dead
- —慰霊祭Popularmemorial service
- —慰撫pacification; soothing
- —慰留dissuasion (from resigning, leaving, etc.); persuading (to stay)
- —慰労recognition of services
- —自慰masturbation; onanism; self-consolation
- —弔慰condolence; sympathy
- —慰安婦comfort woman; prostitute who worked in military brothels, esp. one forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII
- —慰謝料consolation money; solatium; reparation; damages; settlement
- —弔慰金condolence money
- —慰安会recreational get-together
- —慰労会party given in recognition of a person's services
- —慰問品comfort article
- —慰問袋soldier's comfort bag
- —慰霊塔memorial tower
- —慰労金bonus; reward for one's services
- —慰霊碑cenotaph; memorial monument