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閑 kanji
leisure
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Secondary school
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カン
Kun readings
NoneWords with 閑
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —閑雅refined; elegant
- —繁閑press and slack of business
- —閑々quietly; self-composed
- —閑所toilet; lavatory; quiet place
- —閑語talking quietly; quiet conversation; idle talk
- —等閑neglect; negligence; disregard; making light of
- —閑人person with a lot of free time on their hands; person of leisure; idler; loafer
- —休閑地fallow land
- —空閑地vacant lot or land
- —閑日月leisure
- —閑古鳥cuckoo
- —閑散期off period; off season; slack season
- —閑文字idle words (in a written passage); useless words; empty words
- —一閑張りlacquered papier-mâché
- —閑話休題getting back to the subject at hand, ...; (but) to return to the main topic, ...; so much for digressions, ...
- —有閑階級the leisured class
- —小人閑居a small-minded person being idle (tends to do evil)
- —忙中有閑having free time to spare in the midst of busyness; leisure in the intervals of one's work
- —悠々閑々composed and unhurried; easygoing and leisurely; in indolence
- —閑雲野鶴life in natural setting, free from worldly cares
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