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
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Kun readings
ゆえふるいもと
Words with 故
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —縁故募集recruiting (inviting application for) through personal connections; private (stock) offering (subscription)
- —故事成語idiom derived from historical events or classical literature of China
- —親戚故旧relatives and old friends
- —事故防止accident prevention
- —医療事故medical error
- —軽い故障soft failure
- —初期故障initial failure
- —伝送故障transmission fault
- —劣化故障degradation failure
- —過酷事故severe accident (esp. relating to a nuclear reactor)
- —原発事故nuclear power plant accident; nuclear accident
- —保険事故event insured against
- —海難事故accident at sea; maritime accident
- —事故現場scene of an accident; crash site; accident scene
- —動力故障power failure
- —自損事故self-inflicted accident; traffic accident where injury is caused by one's own negligence; one-car accident
- —縮退故障stuck-at fault (chip, circuit); stack fault
- —縁故主義nepotism
- —故実読みhistoric customary reading of a kanji word
- —事故物件stigmatized property; real estate where a crime, death, etc. has occurred