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易 kanji
easy, ready to, simple, fortune-telling, divination
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
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On readings
エキイ
Kun readings
やさしいやすい
Words with 易
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N4貿易Popular(foreign) trade; (international) commerce; importing and exporting
- N1交易Populartrade; commerce
- N1辟易to be fed up (with); to be tired (of); to be bored (with); to be unable to bear; to be stumped; to be nonplussed; to be disconcerted; to wince; to shrink back; to cringe
- —易type of cleromancy divination (described in the Book of Changes) performed with long sticks; The Book of Changes; Yijing; I Ching
- —易学study of divination
- —易経I Ching (ancient Chinese divination and philosophical text; one of the Five Classics of Confucianism); The Book of Changes; Yijing
- —易者fortuneteller; diviner
- —周易divination (based on the Book of Changes)
- —不易constancy; immutable
- —改易loss of samurai status and confiscation of territory and property (Edo-period punishment)
- —易断divination; fortunetelling
- —易簀the death of a scholar
- —三易three methods of Chinese divination (Lian Shan of the Xia period, Gui Cang of the Yin period and Zhou Yi of the Zhou period)
- —変易change; alteration
- —交易会trade fair; trade exposition
- —貿易業trading business
- —貿易港trade port
- —貿易品articles of commerce
- —貿易法trade law
- —貿易風trade wind