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緯

N1

Stroke Order

Meanings

  • horizontal
  • woof
  • left & right
  • (parallels of) latitude
  • prediction

On'yomi (音読み)

  • イ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

  • よこいと
  • ぬき
Strokes
16
JLPT Level
N1
Frequency
#1275
School Grade
Secondary
Radical
糸#120 · silk

Components

Common Words

  • 緯度いどNounlatitude
  • 経緯けいいNoundetails, particulars, sequence of events, circumstances, situation, how things got this way
  • 南緯なんいNounsouthern latitude
  • 北緯ほくいNounnorth latitude
  • 緯線いせんNounparallel, latitude line
  • 緯書いしょNounbook of omens appended to Confucian Chinese classics
  • 緯距いきょNounlatitude
  • 緯度変化いどへんかNounlatitude variation

Practice in Kanjiru

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Data: KANJIDIC2, JMdict & KRADFILE (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0) · KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0) · kanji-frequency (CC BY 4.0)