Kanji1 / 9
律 kanji
rhythm, law, regulation, gauge, control
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
リツリチレツ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 律
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N4法律Popularlaw; legislation; act
- N2規律Popularorder; observance; discipline; rules; law; regulations
- N1一律Popularuniform; even; across-the-board; equal
- —韻律Popularmetre (of a poem); meter; rhythm; prosody
- —戒律Popular(religious) precept; discipline; commandment; mitzvah
- —自律Popularautonomy; self-control; self-discipline; autonomy (in Kantian ethics)
- —旋律Popularmelody; tune
- —不文律Popularunwritten law; common law; unwritten rule
- —自律神経Popularautonomic nerve
- —法律事務所Popularlaw office; law firm
- —律law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale, similar to Dorian mode (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do); step (in traditional Eastern music, corresponding to a Western semitone)
- —音律metre; rhythm; musical temperament
- —軍律martial law; articles of war; military disciple; military law
- —刑律criminal law
- —厳律strict law
- —他律heteronomy; being directed by others; acting according to orders or rules from outside (rather than one's own will); heteronomy (in Kantian ethics)
- —調律tuning (an instrument); temperament
- —律動rhythm
- —律令ritsuryō; criminal, administrative and civil codes of the Nara and Heian eras based on Chinese models
- —楽律metre or rhythm in Chinese and Japanese traditional music