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䝤
JLPT N2 SL4 5 strokes Frequency: #804

Meanings

Orders, Ancient Laws, Command, Decree

Radicals

äşş

Decomposition

⿱人?

Etymology

Ideographic: A person kneeling before a master äşş

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 5

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left
2 diagonal right-to-left
3 dot bottom-right-to-top-left
4 corner bottom-to-top
5 dot bottom-to-top
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
レイ rei
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

240 words total
Other (20 words)
法令を敷く ほうれいをしく

to promulgate a law

命令を伝える めいれいをつたえる

to pass on an order

律令格式 りつりょうきゃくしき

codes of laws and ethics (Tang Code)

令嗣 れいし

your heir

司令塔 しれいとう

control tower

司令長官 しれいちょうかん

Commander-in-Chief

出頭命令 しゅっとうめいれい

summons

隔離命令 かくりめいれい

isolation order

業務改善命令 ぎょうむかいぜんめいれい

business improvement order

裁判所命令 さいばんしょめいれい

court injunction

社長命令 しゃちょうめいれい

order from the company president

配備命令 はいびめいれい

deployment order

廃刀令 はいとうれい

sword abolishment edict (1876)

訓令式ローマ字 くんれいしきローマじ

kunrei-shiki romanization (government-authorized system of romanizing Japanese)

新聞辞令 しんぶんじれい

appointment or dismissal conjecturally reported in the media (esp. when the conjecture turned out to be wrong)

命令口調 めいれいくちょう

tone of command

令法 りょうぶ

Japanese clethra

ご令息 ごれいそく

son

法令遵守 ほうれいじゅんしゅ

compliance (with laws and regulations)

家令 かれい

steward