Kanji1 / 13
罪 kanji
guilt, sin, crime, fault, blame, offense
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ザイ
Kun readings
つみ
Words with 罪
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —五罪five punishments (of the ritsuryō system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death); five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)
- —滅罪expiation
- —前罪previous conviction
- —罪源substance of a sin; source of a sin
- —徒罪imprisonment (for 1-3 years; third most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
- —罪証evidence (of a crime)
- —罪囚prisoner; convict
- —逆罪crime of killing one's master or parent (Edo period); very grave sin
- —小罪venial sin; lesser sin; small sin; small crime
- —偽証罪crime of perjury
- —偽造罪forgery
- —脅迫罪criminal intimidation
- —軽犯罪minor offence; minor offense; misdemeanor; misdemeanour
- —罪悪感feelings of guilt
- —窃盗罪(crime of) theft; (crime of) stealing; larceny
- —犯罪学criminology
- —不敬罪lese majesty; lèse-majesté
- —不倫罪(crime of) adultery
- —未遂罪attempted crime
- —免罪符indulgence (esp. in the Catholic Church); pardon; excuse; justification; rationalization; making amends for a previous misdoing