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
- —慰安所comfort women brothel (during World War II); military brothel
- —慰安旅行pleasure trip; company (office) trip
- —自慰行為(act of) masturbation; pleasuring oneself
- —自慰史観self-congratulatory historical view; uncritical view of (Japanese) history
- —慰労休暇holiday given in recognition of one's service
- —合同慰霊祭joint service for the war dead
- —従軍慰安婦comfort woman; prostitute who worked in military brothels, esp. one forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII
- —戦没者慰霊碑war memorial
- —慰藉consolation
- —慰藉料consolation money; solatium; reparation; damages; settlement