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
- —背約a broken promise; breaking one's word
- —背理absurdity; irrationality
- —背馳inconsistency; contradiction; disobedience
- —背嚢knapsack
- —紙背reverse side of a paper; reading between the lines
- —背圧back pressure
- —足背top of the foot; instep
- —榻背back of a chair
- —背臨copying from a model without looking at it (calligraphy)
- —背屈dorsiflexion; dorsal flexion
- —背甲carapace
- —背側dorsal
- —背痛backache; back pain
- —離背estrangement; alienation; disaffection
- —背水backwater; standing with one's back to water (river, lake, etc.)
- —背筋muscles of the back; back muscles
- —馬背horse's back
- —背点anti-apex; antapex
- —円背hunchback; kyphosis
- —後背back; rear; background