Kanji1 / 15
質 kanji
substance, quality, matter, temperament
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
シツシチチ
Kun readings
たちただすもとわりふ
Variant forms
劕貭Words with 質
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —量より質quality over quantity; quality before quantity
- —汚染物質pollutant; contaminant
- —関連質問follow-up question; related question; interpellation on related matters
- —実質賃金real wages
- —副腎皮質adrenal cortex
- —物質代謝metabolism
- —有害物質toxic substance
- —一般質問general interpellation
- —核蛋白質nucleoprotein
- —水質汚染water pollution
- —水質検査water-quality test
- —資質英明wise and clear-sighted; intelligent and astute by nature; blessed with talents
- —質素倹約(practice of) simplicity and frugality; scrimping and saving
- —癒着体質tendency to form collusive ties; predisposition to generate cozy (collusive) relationships
- —羊質虎皮sheep in a tiger's skin; gimcrack; showy without real worth; all show and no substance
- —劣性形質recessive trait; recessive character
- —獲得形質acquired characteristics (as opposed to inherited)
- —運動皮質motor cortex (area of the brain just anterior to the central sulcus responsible for controlling voluntary muscle activity)
- —角質肥厚skin thickening
- —毒性物質toxic (poisonous) substance