Kanji1 / 13
摂 kanji
vicarious, surrogate, act in addition to, take in, absorb
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
セツショウ
Kun readings
おさめるかねるとる
Variant forms
攝Words with 摂
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —摂氏PopularCelsius; centigrade
- —摂取Popularintake (e.g. of salt); ingestion; absorption (e.g. of new knowledge); adoption (e.g. of foreign culture); assimilation; reception and protection
- —摂理Popularlaws (of nature); (divine) providence
- —兼摂serving concurrently as; holding the additional post of
- —摂食eating; feeding
- —摂政regency; regent
- —摂生taking care of one's health
- —摂動perturbation
- —包摂inclusion; encompassing; connotation; subsumption
- —摂家(line of) regents and advisers (advisors)
- —摂関regents and advisers (advisors)
- —摂社auxiliary shrine (dedicated to a deity close-related to that of a main shrine)
- —摂津Settsu (former province located in the northern and central parts of present-day Osaka and the southeast of Hyogo prefectures)
- —摂政advisor (to the Ryukyuan King)
- —摂餌feeding (esp. by animals)
- —摂動論perturbation theory
- —不摂生neglect of one's health; unhealthy living; intemperance
- —摂関家line of regents and advisers (advisors)
- —摂護腺prostate gland
- —非摂動non-perturbative