Kanji1 / 7
却 kanji
instead, on the contrary, rather, step back, withdraw, retreat
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
キャク
Kun readings
かえってしりぞくしりぞける
Variant forms
卻Words with 却
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —棄却Popularrejection; dismissal; turning down; abandoning; renunciation
- —却下Popularrejection; dismissal
- —償却Popularrepayment; redemption; depreciation; amortization; amortisation
- —焼却Popularincineration; destruction by fire
- —退却Popularretreat; withdrawal; retirement
- —脱却Popularridding oneself; freeing oneself of; growing out of; overcoming; outgrowing
- —売却Popularselling off; disposal by sale; sale
- —返却Popularreturn of something; repayment
- —忘却Popularlapse of memory; forgetting completely; (consigning to) oblivion
- —冷却Popularcooling; refrigeration; cooling down (of a political conflict, etc.); calming down
- —減価償却Populardepreciation
- —滅却extinguishment; destruction; effacement
- —消却erasure; effacement; paying back (debt)
- —没却ignoring; losing sight of (an objective); discarding
- —除却exclusion; elimination
- —閑却negligence; disregard
- —困却perplexity; dilemma
- —廃却disposal; throwing away; scrapping (something)
- —阻却rejection
- —減却reduction; decrease