Kanji1 / 9
逆 kanji
inverted, reverse, opposite, wicked
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ギャクゲキ
Kun readings
さかさかささからう
Words with 逆
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —逆換(logical) inversion
- —弑逆murder of one's lord or father
- —逆走going in the opposite direction; going against the wind; running or operating a machine in reverse (such as an electric motor)
- —正逆forward and reverse
- —乱逆rebellion
- —逆性inverse; reverse; retro-; contra-
- —逆元inverse element
- —逆電(TV or radio host) calling a listener
- —逆位(chromosomal) inversion
- —逆卍right-facing swastika; clockwise swastika
- —逆側opposite side; other side
- —逆罪crime of killing one's master or parent (Edo period); very grave sin
- —五逆five cardinal sins (killing one's father, killing one's mother, killing an arhat, shedding the blood of a Buddha, causing a schism within the sangha); crime of killing one's master, father, grandfather, mother, or grandmother
- —逆送sending back; returning; referring a case (regarding juvenile crime) back to the public prosecutor
- —逆目against the grain (of paper); (putting) against the grain
- —逆像reverse image; inverse image
- —逆胴hitting the left side of the torso (in kendo)
- —逆凸calling someone during one's own livestream
- —逆探call tracing
- —逆行列inverse matrix