Kanji1 / 10
脈 kanji
vein, pulse, hope
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
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ミャク
Kun readings
すじ
Variant forms
脉Words with 脈
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2文脈Popularcontext (of a passage); line of thought; context (of a matter, event, etc.); circumstances; background
- N1脈Popularpulse; vein; chain (of mountains, etc.); hope; thread (of an argument)
- N1山脈Popularmountain range; mountain belt
- —金脈Popularvein of gold; financial connections; patron; source of money
- —人脈Popularpersonal connections
- —静脈Popularvein
- —動脈Popularartery; arterial road; major route
- —脈絡Popularlogical connection; chain of reasoning; coherence; context; blood vessel
- —脈拍Popularpulse; pulse rate; pulsation; stroke of pulse
- —不整脈Populararrhythmia; abnormal heartbeat
- —大動脈Popularaorta; important traffic route
- —動脈硬化Populararteriosclerosis; hardening of the arteries; loss of flexibility (in thinking, systems, etc.); inflexibility; institutional rigidity
- —一脈(a) vein; (a) thread (of connection)
- —鉱脈vein (of ore); reef; streak; lode
- —支脈spur; feed; branch
- —主脈main mountain range; midrib; costa; main vein (leaf)
- —平脈normal pulse
- —脈動pulsation; pulsatory motion
- —命脈life; thread of life
- —乱脈disorder; confusion; chaos