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Kanji Information Sheet for 七 ( 
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| English: seven | On-Yomi: シチ | Kun-Yomi: なな なな.つ なの し しっ な ひち |
Bushu (Radical) Info:
一 (いち) – one
乙 (おつ) – fish hook
一 (いち) – one
乙 (おつ) – fish hook
Henshall Mnemonic: badly written ten again: now worth only seven
Levels: JLPT N5 | JLPT 4 (old) | Grade 1
Frequency: #115 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #115 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
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JLPT N5 Words
- 七 [しち]
(num) seven [K] [D] [Jisho] - 七つ [ななつ]
(n) seven [K] [D] [Jisho] - 七月 [しちがつ]
(n-adv) July [K] [D] [Jisho] - 七日 [なのか]
(n-adv) seven days; the seventh day (of the month) [K] [D] [Jisho]
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 二七日 [ふたなぬか]
(n) second week's memorial services [K] [D] [Jisho] - 七五三 [しちごさん]
(n) (1) festival (shrine visit) by children aged 7, 5 and 3; (2) lucky numbers 7, 5 and 3 [K] [D] [Jisho] - 七七日 [しちしちにち]
(n) 49th day after death [K] [D] [Jisho] - 七十 [しちじゅう]
seventy [K] [D] [Jisho] - 十七 [じゅうしち]
17; seventeen [K] [D] [Jisho] - 七福神 [しちふくじん]
(n) Seven Deities of Good Luck [K] [D] [Jisho] - 七夕 [たなばた]
(n) (1) Festival of the Weaver (July 7th); Star Festival; (2) prayer ceremony for children's artistic development [K] [D] [Jisho] - 四十七士 [しじゅうしちし]
Forty-Seven Loyal Retainers [K] [D] [Jisho]
Acknowledgments
The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.
The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.
Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.
The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.
If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.