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礼 kanji
salute, bow, ceremony, thanks, remuneration
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
レイライ
Kun readings
NoneVariant forms
禮Words with 礼
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —礼拝式religious service; religious practice
- —洗礼者baptist; baptizer
- —水葬礼burial at sea
- —儀礼刀ceremonial sword
- —謝礼金reward money; reward; honorarium
- —略礼服semiformal attire; semiformal dress
- —洗礼堂baptistery; baptistry
- —洗礼盤baptismal font
- —終油礼extreme unction
- —略礼装semiformal attire; semiformal dress
- —返礼品thank-you gift (given as thanks for a favor or for attending a funeral, etc.); thank-you gift (sent from a locality to a tax payer as part of the "hometown tax" program)
- —お礼肥fertiliser applied after harvesting
- —礼返しreturning a favor; gift in acknowledgement of a favor
- —偶像礼拝idolatry
- —三顧の礼showing (someone) special courtesy (to persuade them to take a post)
- —繁文縟礼red-tapism
- —礼を言うto thank
- —礼儀作法etiquette; courtesy
- —慇懃無礼superficially polite but actually rude; rude under a veneer of politeness; courteous on the surface but insolent at heart
- —お礼奉公free service after one has finished one's apprenticeship