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
- —日本後紀Nihon Kōki (third of the six classical Japanese history texts)
- —世紀末的fin-de-siècle; decadent
- —仏滅紀元Buddhist calendar
- —人類紀元Holocene Era (calendar year numbering system); Human Era
- —記紀歌謡ballad found in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki
- —第三紀層tertiary layer; tertiary formation
- —紀勢本線Kisei Main Line (Wakayama-Mie railway)
- —釈日本紀Shaku Nihongi (commentary on the Nihon Shoki compiled in the late 13th century)
- —紀州みかんCitrus kinokuni (species of mandarin orange)
- —続日本後紀Shoku Nihon Kōki (fourth of the six classical Japanese history texts)
- —紀事本末体topical-annalistic style (of historical writing)
- —新世紀世代millennials; millennial generation
- —前世紀の遺物relic from an earlier age; something extremely outmoded; museum piece
- —オルドビス紀Ordovician period
- —カンブリア紀Cambrian period
- —キリスト紀元Christian Era; CE
- —日本書紀通証Perpetual Commentary on the Chronicles of Japan (by Tanikawa Kotosuga, 1762)
- —紀州鉄道株式会社Kishu Railway
- —新世紀エヴァンゲリオンNeon Genesis Evangelion (media franchise)
- —米国科学アカデミー紀要Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; PNAS