Kanji1 / 9
革 kanji
leather, skin, reform, become serious
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
カク
Kun readings
かわ
Words with 革
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —文学革命literary revolution (of China; post-1917 emphasis on vernacular forms)
- —改革開放Reform and Opening-up (Chinese economic policy)
- —雨傘革命Umbrella Revolution (protests in Hong Kong in 2014)
- —独立革命revolutionary war for independence
- —東欧革命East European Revolution (of 1989); fall of Communism
- —通貨改革currency reform; monetary reform
- —白紙革命White Paper Revolution (2022 COVID-19 protests in China); A4 Revolution
- —反宗教改革Counter-Reformation
- —文化大革命(China's) Cultural Revolution (1966-76)
- —清教徒革命Puritan Revolution
- —改革を叫ぶto cry loudly for a reform; to clamour for change
- —ロシア革命Russian Revolution (1917-1923)
- —永久革命論permanent revolution
- —改革派教会Reformed Churches
- —革命評議会revolutionary council
- —構造改革論structural reform theory
- —イラン革命Iranian Revolution (1978)
- —享保の改革Kyōhō Reforms (1736 economic reforms)
- —寛政の改革Kansei Reforms (series of conservative government measures; 1787-1793)
- —天保の改革Tempō Reforms (series of government measures; 1841-1843)