Kanji1 / 9
故 kanji
happenstance, especially, intentionally, reason, cause, circumstances, the late, therefore, consequently
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
コ
Kun readings
ゆえふるいもと
Words with 故
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —事故車car involved in an accident; car with an accident history
- —故意にdeliberately; intentionally; on purpose; purposely
- —事故時(at) the time of an accident; (in) the event of an accident
- —故障者injured player
- —縁故者related person; relative
- —坑内事故mine accident
- —事故原因source, cause of an accident
- —人身事故accident resulting in personal injury or death (esp. traffic, rail, etc.)
- —物損事故traffic accident resulting in property damage
- —故事来歴origin and history; particulars
- —臨界事故criticality accident (in the nuclear industry)
- —墜落事故plane crash
- —有職故実studies in usages and practices of the ancient court and military households
- —盗品故買dealing in stolen goods
- —温故知新developing new ideas based on study of the past; learning from the past
- —接触事故minor collision; (have) a scrape (with another vehicle); fender bender
- —鉄道事故railroad accident
- —縁故採用employment of workers through personal connections; hiring through personal connections; nepotism
- —縁故政治crony politics; nepotistic government
- —縁故疎開evacuating to the homes of one's relatives in the countryside in wartime