Kanji1 / 15
緊 kanji
tense, solid, hard, reliable, tight
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Secondary school
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キン
Kun readings
しめるしまる
Words with 緊
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3緊張Populartension; strain; nervousness; stress; tensions (between countries, groups, etc.); tonus; muscle tone
- N1緊急Popularurgency; emergency
- —緊縮Populartightening; shrinkage; contraction; constriction; (economic) curtailment; retrenchment; austerity; cutting down (on spending)
- —緊迫Populartension; strain
- —緊密Popularrigour; rigor; closeness; compactness; tightly knit
- —緊急事態宣言Populardeclaration of a state of emergency
- —緊縛binding tightly; tight binding; (sexual) bondage
- —緊要momentous; exigent; urgent; important; vital
- —緊褌loincloth
- —緊切urgent; pressing
- —喫緊urgent; pressing; exigent
- —国緊隊Japan International Cooperation Agency; JICA
- —緊急時(time of) emergency; (in) event of emergency; (in) case of emergency
- —緊那羅kimnara (celestial musicians and protectors of Buddhism)
- —緊急度(degree of) urgency
- —緊張感feeling of tension; air of tension; tension; nervousness
- —緊張病catatonia
- —緊迫感sense of urgency; feeling of high tension
- —筋緊張muscle tone; tonus; myotonia
- —緊急性urgency; emergency