Kanji1 / 15
遺 kanji
bequeath, leave behind, reserve
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
イユイ
Kun readings
のこす
Words with 遺
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —遺草posthumous works
- —遺贈bequest; legacy
- —遺脱omission
- —遺著posthumous work
- —遺徳benefit from ancestors' virtue
- —遺髪hair of the deceased (retained as a keepsake)
- —遺風hereditary custom; surviving tradition; teachings passed down from previous generations
- —遺文literary remains
- —遺芳memory or autograph of deceased
- —遺命will; dying instructions
- —遺留leaving behind (after death); bequest; leaving behind; forgetting
- —遺漏omission
- —遺址(historic) ruins
- —補遺supplement; addendum; appendix
- —遺尿enuresis; bed wetting
- —遺墨autographs (brushwork) of departed person
- —拾遺gleaning; gleanings
- —遺習old customs
- —遺集collection of writings by the deceased
- —遺筆writing left by the deceased