Kanji1 / 13
節 kanji
node, season, period, occasion, verse, clause, stanza, honor, joint, knuckle, knob, knot, tune, melody
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
セツセチ
Kun readings
ふし-ぶしのっと
Variant forms
節Words with 節
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —五節the five festivals (January 7, March 3, May 5, July 7 and September 9)
- —小節bar; measure; short pause (in writing); petty principles; minor details
- —節煙moderation in smoking
- —節介meddling; meddlesomeness; nosiness; interference; officiousness
- —節気24 divisions of the solar year; 24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons
- —節倹economy; thrift
- —節酒moderation in drinking; cutting down on one's drinking; temperance
- —節食eating lightly (to save money, food, calories, etc.)
- —節水saving water; water conservation; economizing on water
- —節制moderation; self-restraint; temperance
- —節税tax reduction; tax avoidance; tax planning
- —節点node; nodal point; joint (e.g. in a framework)
- —節電saving electricity; power saving; reducing electricity usage; reducing power consumption
- —節迫end of the year
- —節分setsubun; last day of winter in the traditional Japanese calendar (usu. February 3 or 4) on which a bean scattering ceremony is held; last day of any season (according to the traditional Japanese calendar)
- —節欲control one's desires; abstinence
- —前節preceding paragraph, section, or verse
- —貞節chastity; fidelity; faithfulness; virtue
- —分節articulation
- —文節phrase; clause; basic linguistic unit in Japanese grammar