Kanji1 / 7
私 kanji
private, I, me
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
シ
Kun readings
わたくしわたし
Words with 私
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —私傷injury sustained outside official duty; off-duty injury
- —私費でat one's own expense
- —私有地demesne; estate; private land; private property
- —一私人private individual
- —私小説I-novel; novel narrated in the first person
- —私生子illegitimate child
- —私生児illegitimate child; bastard; love child
- —私有物private possession
- —私家集private or personal collection (of poetry)
- —私娼窟brothel; house of ill repute; red-light district
- —私家版privately printed book; private (press) edition
- —私人間relations between individuals
- —私年号era name used by commoners (as opposed to the imperial court); unofficial era name
- —私的財private goods
- —私鋳銭private coinage
- —私立中private junior high school
- —私書函post office box
- —私奴婢privately owned slave
- —私窩子prostitute; harlot
- —私保険private insurance