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臣 kanji
retainer, subject
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
シンジン
Kun readings
NoneWords with 臣
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —権臣influential vassal; powerful retainer; powerful courtier
- —賊臣rebel; insurrectionist; traitor
- —外臣foreign retainer
- —直臣immediate follower (of the shogun)
- —嬖臣favorite retainer; court favorite
- —封臣vassal
- —愚臣foolish retainer; I; me
- —忠臣蔵(story of the) Forty-seven Rōnin; the Treasury of Loyal Retainers; Chūshingura
- —帷幄の臣close adviser; close advisor
- —臣籍降下(of members of the Imperial family) becoming subjects of the state
- —乱臣賊子rebels against one's lord and one's parents; rebellious (treacherous) subject; traitor
- —市井の臣townspeople; the common people
- —帝国臣民imperial subject
- —臣道連盟Shindo Renmei (Japanese terrorist group active in Brazil in the 1940s)
- —位人臣を極めるto rise to the highest possible rank
- —反臣rebellious retainer
- —倖臣favorite retainer; court favorite
- —姦臣disloyal retainer; treacherous subject
- —帷幄之臣close adviser; close advisor
- —臣道聯盟Shindo Renmei (Japanese terrorist group active in Brazil in the 1940s)