Kanji1 / 10
脈 kanji
vein, pulse, hope
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ミャク
Kun readings
すじ
Variant forms
脉Words with 脈
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —竜脈long mai (feng shui); longmai; the air or energy flowing down from an undulating mountain range
- —脈石gangue; veinstone
- —地脈mineral vein; underground water channel
- —脈波pulse wave
- —側脈lateral vein (in leaf venation)
- —任脈conception vessel (in traditional Chinese medicine); Ren channel
- —検脈pulse taking; checking the pulse
- —脈圧pulse pressure
- —霊脈spiritual vein; spiritual current; ley line; occult channel
- —冠動脈coronary artery
- —頚静脈jugular vein
- —頸動脈carotid artery
- —静脈炎phlebitis
- —動脈血arterial blood
- —脈打つto pound (e.g. heart); to pulse (e.g. vein); to pulsate
- —脈搏数pulse rate
- —動脈瘤aneurysm; aneurism
- —火山脈volcanic range; volcanic chain
- —静脈血venous blood
- —静脈瘤varix; varicosity; varicose vein