Kanji1 / 9
相 kanji
inter-, mutual, together, each other, minister of state, councillor, aspect, phase, physiognomy
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ソウショウ
Kun readings
あい-
Words with 相
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —吉相auspicious appearance; good or lucky omen
- —相好features; appearance
- —相承inheritance
- —相姦illicit sexual relations (e.g. incest, adultery)
- —相愛mutual love
- —相貌looks; features
- —地相geographic features; divination based on the lay of the land
- —観相physiognomy
- —法相dharmalaksana (dharma characteristics, the specific characteristics of all manifest phenomena); Hosso sect of Buddhism
- —福相happy-looking
- —滅相extravagant; absurd
- —層相facies
- —月相lunar phase; phase of the Moon
- —液相liquid phase
- —核相nuclear phase (of an organism, cell, etc.)
- —正相in phase; in-phase; co-phase
- —逆相antiphase; reverse phase
- —凶相bad luck (result from fortune telling); evil countenance
- —相輪sōrin; finial of a Japanese pagoda
- —極相climax