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Kanji Information Sheet for 際 ( PDF version )
English: occasion side edge verge dangerous adventurous indecent time when | On-Yomi: サイ | Kun-Yomi: きわ -ぎわ わ |
Bushu (Radical) Info: 阜 (ぎふのふ) – left village
Henshall Mnemonic: festival at edge of hill is quite an occasion
Levels: JLPT N3 | JLPT 2 (old) | Grade 5
Frequency: #183 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #183 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
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JLPT N4 Words
JLPT N3 Words
- 実際 [じっさい]
(adj-no,adv,n) practical; actual condition; status quo [K] [D] [Jisho] - 際 [さい]
(n-adv,n) on the occasion of; circumstances [K] [D] [Jisho] - 交際 [こうさい]
(n,vs) company; friendship; association; society; acquaintance [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N1 Words
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 国際法 [こくさいほう]
(n) international laws [K] [D] [Jisho] - 国際連合 [こくさいれんごう]
United Nations [K] [D] [Jisho] - 水際 [みずぎわ]
(n) beach; water's edge [K] [D] [Jisho] - 学際 [がくさい]
(n) interdisciplinary [K] [D] [Jisho] - 土俵際 [どひょうぎわ]
(n) the edge of a sumo ring; the edge or verge [K] [D] [Jisho] - 間際 [まぎわ]
(n) on the verge of; just before; on the point of [K] [D] [Jisho] - 際会 [さいかい]
(n,vs) meeting; facing; confronting [K] [D] [Jisho] - 際限 [さいげん]
(n) limits; end; bounds [K] [D] [Jisho] - 際立つ [きわだつ]
(v5t) to be prominent; to be conspicuous [K] [D] [Jisho] - 国際化 [こくさいか]
(n) internationalization [K] [D] [Jisho] - 窓際 [まどぎわ]
(n) (at the) window [K] [D] [Jisho] - 国際協力事業団 [こくさいきょうりょくじぎょうだん]
Japan International Cooperation Agency (1974); JICA [K] [D] [Jisho] - 国際人 [こくさいじん]
(n) international celebrity; cosmopolitan; citizen of the world [K] [D] [Jisho] - 国際的 [こくさいてき]
(adj-na) international [K] [D] [Jisho] - 交際費 [こうさいひ]
(n) entertainment expenses [K] [D] [Jisho] - 手際良く [てぎわよく]
efficiently; skillfully; cleverly [K] [D] [Jisho] - 瀬戸際 [せとぎわ]
(n) brink; critical moment [K] [D] [Jisho] - 国際電信電話 [こくさいでんしんでんわ]
KDD; Japanese international telecommunications company [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.