Kanji1 / 9
紀 kanji
chronicle, account, narrative, history, annals, geologic period
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
キ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 紀
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3世紀Popularcentury; era; of the century (e.g. fight of the century)
- —紀元Popularera; CE (Common Era); AD (Anno Domini)
- —紀行Populartraveller's journal; traveler's journal; travelogue
- —綱紀Popularlaw and order; (official) discipline
- —風紀Popularpublic morals; discipline; rules governing social behavior
- —紀元前Popularpre-era; BC; BCE
- —世紀末Popularend of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle; end of the world (esp. in fiction); apocalypse
- —二十世紀Populartwentieth century; Nijisseiki pear (variety of nashi); Nijusseiki pear
- —デボン紀PopularDevonian period
- —紀period; Nihon Shoki (second oldest work of Japanese history, compiled in 720 CE); Nihongi; Chronicles of Japan; Kii (former province located in present-day Wakayama and southern Mie prefectures)
- —紀要bulletin; memoirs
- —校紀school discipline
- —皇紀Imperial era; system of counting years from the start of Emperor Jimmu's reign in 660 BCE
- —芳紀age of a young lady who is at the peak of her (sexual) attractiveness; marriageable age (of a young lady); sweet sixteen
- —西紀Christian era
- —党紀party discipline
- —官紀rules which officials must follow
- —記紀the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki (earliest historical records of Japan)
- —紀伝biography
- —紀年years (since the start of an era)