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
- —一打逆転a complete turnabout via a single blow
- —大逆事件High Treason Incident (socialist-anarchist plot to assassinate Emperor Meiji in 1910)
- —逆になるto become inverted; to become reversed
- —可逆機関reversible engine
- —可逆電池reversible cell
- —可逆変化reversible change
- —忠言逆耳good advice is harsh to the ears; honest advice is often unpleasant to the ears
- —悪逆非道heinous; treacherous; atrocious; diabolic; fiendish; inhuman
- —逆転優勝come-from-behind victory
- —形勢逆転the situation reverses itself; the table is turned; the shoe is on the other foot
- —大逆非道heinous; treacherous; atrocious; diabolic; fiendish; inhuman
- —大逆無道heinous; treacherous; atrocious; diabolic; fiendish; inhuman
- —一発逆転turning things around with a home run; turning the tables with a single successful attack (move)
- —昼夜逆転one's days and nights being reversed
- —反逆分子renegade; rebellious elements
- —逆手打ちbackhand (tennis, etc.)
- —逆コースreverse course; reversion
- —逆輸入車reverse-imported vehicle (esp. high-displacement motorcycles meant for sale outside Japan)
- —可逆圧縮lossless compression
- —逆多重化demultiplexing