Kanji1 / 9
背 kanji
stature, height, back, behind, disobey, defy, go back on, rebel
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ハイ
Kun readings
せせいそむくそむける
Words with 背
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1背景Popularbackground; scenery; backdrop; setting; background (of an incident, situation, etc.); circumstances; context; backing; support (from behind the scenes)
- N1背後Popularback; rear; background; behind the scenes
- —背信Popularbetrayal; infidelity
- —背任Popularbreach of trust; malfeasance; malpractice; misappropriation
- —違背violation; transgression
- —棄背giving up and turning back
- —向背one's attitude (toward); one's position; support or opposition; state of affairs; situation; developments
- —側背flank
- —背教apostasy; renunciation (e.g. of a religion); defection
- —背徳corruption; immorality; lapse from virtue; fall from virtue
- —刀背back of a sword
- —背反revolting; rebellion; going against; contradiction; antinomy
- —背戻disobeying; infringing; running counter to
- —背離estrangement; alienation
- —腹背back and front; opposition in the heart
- —背部(one's) back; back; rear
- —背泳backstroke (swimming)
- —背面rear; back; reverse
- —光背halo
- —背走running backwards; running with the head turned back