Kanji1 / 10
挨 kanji
approach, draw near, push open
- JLPT level
- Not on the lists
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
アイ
Kun readings
ひらく
Words with 挨
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3挨拶Populargreeting; greetings; salutation; salute; polite set phrase used when meeting or parting from someone; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; courtesy visit (to offer condolences, say congratulations, pay respect, introduce oneself, etc.); revenge; retaliation; a fine thing to say; dialoging (with another Zen practitioner to ascertain their level of enlightenment); relationship (between people); connection; intervention; mediation; mediator
- —挨拶状greeting card
- —ご挨拶greeting; a fine thing to say
- —挨拶語words of greeting
- —挨拶文greeting phrase (in letter, etc.); salutation
- —不挨拶incivility; impoliteness
- —挨拶回りcourtesy call; going around to say hello (or goodbye) to everybody; making the rounds
- —一挨一拶dialoging (with another Zen practitioner to ascertain their level of enlightenment)
- —年頭挨拶New Year's greetings
- —舞台挨拶on-stage speech by the director and cast on the opening day of a movie or play
- —時候の挨拶seasonal greeting; conventional opening phrase in a letter, appropriate to the season
- —挨拶代わりsubstitute for a proper greeting (e.g. gift)
- —挨拶は抜きでwithout compliments (greetings)
- —挨拶を交わすto exchange greetings
- —挨拶より円札money speaks louder than words; money is better than (empty) words; yen bills over salutations
- —挨拶は時の氏神blessed are the peacemakers; one should appreciate and follow the advice of a mediator
- —御挨拶greeting; a fine thing to say
- —無挨拶incivility; impoliteness
- —挨拶まわりcourtesy call; going around to say hello (or goodbye) to everybody; making the rounds
- —挨拶を交すto exchange greetings