Kanji1 / 14
適 kanji
suitable, occasional, rare, qualified, capable
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
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On readings
テキ
Kun readings
かなう
Words with 適
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —適潤suitably damp; adequately wet (e.g. for plants)
- —適語appropriate word; apt word or expression; mot juste
- —適すto fit; to suit
- —技適technical standards compliance
- —至適optimal; optimum
- —適期proper time (e.g. for harvesting rice); appropriate time; right time
- —適湿moderate humidity
- —進適academic aptitude test (taken by Japanese university applicants between 1948 and 1954)
- —快適さcomfort; ease; amenity
- —最適化optimization; optimisation
- —適応性adaptability; flexibility; malleability
- —適任者suitable person; well-qualified person; responsible party; responsible person
- —適用性applicability
- —不適任unfitness; incompetency
- —不適格disqualification; unfitness; noncompliance
- —適不適suitability
- —適応症diseases for which a particular medicine is indicated
- —適格者qualified or eligible person
- —適時打clutch hit; run-scoring hit; RBI hit
- —外適応exaptation