Kanji: 七

    • Meaning : seven
    • ON reading : シチ
    • KUN reading : なな,なな.つ,なの
    • Nanori : し,しっ,な,ひち
    • Stroke count : 2
    • Frequency of use ranking : 115
    • Jouyou grade level : 1
    • JLPT : 4
    • Radical :

Words containing that kanji:


  • り - おやのひかりはななひかり - Having a famous parent's help
  • - ひとのうわさもしちじゅうごにち - Wonder lasts but nine days
  • - おしちや - name-giving ceremony
  • - ななかまど - Sorbus commista
  • - ひとのうわさもななじゅうごにち - gossip lasts just one season (lit: 75 days)
  • - ごしちにち - January 8-14
  • - ごしちにちのみしほ | ごしちにちのみずほう - annual Shingon prayer ritual (Jan. 8-14)
  • つの - ななつのほし - big dipper | Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn
  • - めいじにじゅうしちはちねんせんえき - Meiji 27-28 Campaign (alternate name for the First Sino-Japanese war; 1894-1895)
  • | - かみよななよ - seven generations of (celestial) gods
  • - てんじんしちだい - seven generations of celestial deities
  • つ | 7つ - ななつ - seven
  • - しちかっけい - heptagon
  • - しちごさん - festival (shrine visit) by children aged 7, 5 and 3 | lucky numbers 7, 5 and 3
  • - しちじゅうにんやくせいしょ | ななじゅうにんやくせいしょ - Septuagint
  • - しちしょう - seven lives
  • - しちどう - the seven districts of ancient Japan
  • - しちぶさんぶ - seven to three (chances)
  • - しっぽう - the 7 treasures (gold, silver, pearls, agate, crystal, coral, lapis lazuli)/cloisonne
  • - しちよう - the seven luminaries (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) | the seven days of the week
  • | - ななつや - pawnshop
  • | - しちがつ - July
  • - ななまわりのいわい - the Feast of Weeks/Pentecost
  • - ななえ - sevenfold/seven-ply
  • | | き - ななころびやおき | しちてんはっき - the vicissitudes of life/ups and downs in life/always rising after a fall or repeated failures
  • - ななふしぎ - seven wonders (of a particular area)
  • き - しちぶづき - seventy percent polished rice
  • - しちめんどう - great trouble/difficulty
  • - しちしゅ - seven orders of Buddhist disciples (monks, nuns, probationary nuns, male novices, female novices, male lay devotees, female lay devotees)
  • - しち | なな | な - seven
  • - しちかいき - seventh anniversary of a death
  • - しちけん - the seven wise men
  • り - ななしゅうのまつり - the Feast of Weeks/Pentecost
  • - しちせい - Big Dipper/Ursa Major
  • - しちどうがらん - complete seven-structured temple compound
  • - しちふくじん - Seven Deities of Good Luck
  • - しちへんけい - heptagon/septagon
  • - しちや - celebration of a child's seventh day
  • つの - ななつのうみ - the seven seas
  • がり - ななまがり - tortuous or spiral (path)
  • 調 - しちごちょう - seven-and-five-syllable meter
  • - ななそじ - age seventy/one's seventies
  • - ななくさ - the seven spring flowers/the seven fall flowers/the seven autumn flowers
  • - しちねんき - seventh anniversary of a death
  • - しちぶそで - three-quarter sleeves
  • - しちめんちょう - turkey
  • | - しちげんきん - qin (7-stringed Chinese zither)/guqin/seven-stringed koto
  • - とびななふし | トビナナフシ - Micadina phluctaenoides (species of stick insect)
  • | - ななふし | ナナフシ - walking stick (any insect of order Phasmatodea)/walkingstick/stick insect/leaf insect
  • - ななひゃく | しちひゃく - 700
  • - なんとしちだいじ - the seven great temples of Nara (Daian-ji, Gango-ji, Horyu-ji, Kofuku-ji, Saidai-ji, Todai-ji, Yakushi-ji)
  • - しちねんせんそう - Seven Years' War (1756-1763)
  • | り - おやのななひかり - capitalizing on the fame of a parent/riding a parent's coat-tails
  • - しちじゅうにこう - the 72 'climates' of the year based on the 24 solar seasons further divided into three
  • - しちだいじ - the seven great temples of Nara (Daian-ji, Gango-ji, Horyu-ji, Kofuku-ji, Saidai-ji, Todai-ji, Yakushi-ji)
  • - しちかんのん - the seven forms of Avalokitesvara | the seven Avalokitesvaras of Kyoto
  • - せかいのななふしぎ - Seven Wonders of the World
  • - ななつぼし - the big dipper | family crest representing the seven luminaries (with one central circle surrounded by six other circles) | Japanese pilchard/Japanese sardine (Sardinops melanostictus)
  • - ななしゅきょうぎ - heptathlon
  • セシウム | セシウム137 - セシウムひゃくさんじゅうしち - Cesium 137 (Cs-137) (Caesium)
  • - さんしちにんじん - notoginseng (Panax pseudoginseng)
  • - なぬかざめ | ナヌカザメ - blotchy swell shark (species of cat shark, Cephaloscyllium umbratile)
  • - ななつどき - (approx.) 4 o'clock (am or pm)
  • - かこしちぶつ - the seven previous incarnations of Buddha
  • - しちぶつ - the seven previous incarnations of Buddha
  • - さげおななじゅつ - seven techniques using a ninja sword
  • - ほくとしちせい - the Great Bear/the Great Dipper/Ursa Major
  • け - ななばけ - the seven common disguises of ninja
  • - しちぶん - type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up seven-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg
  • - かわさきしちぶ - type of baggy tobi trousers with the baggy part taking up seven-tenths of the full length of the trouser leg
  • - しちへんげ | シチヘンゲ - lantana (plant, flower) | Kabuki dance in which the dancer quickly changes his clothes seven times | character from Cutie Honey (anime) | Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge (anime, manga title) | Shichihenge Tanuki Goten (1954 movie)
  • まつり - せんだいたなばたまつり - Sendai Tanabata Festival
  • - じゅうしちじょうけんぽう - The Seventeen-Article Constitution
  • - みなぬか | みなのか | さんしちにち - 21st day after death/21st day after birth
  • - しちじゅう | ななじゅう | ななそ - seventy
  • - じゅうしち | じゅうなな - 17/seventeen
  • | 7 - なのか | なぬか - the seventh day of the month | seven days
  • - しちしょく | なないろ - the seven prismatic colors (colours)
  • - ふたなぬか | ふたなのか - second week's memorial services
  • | - たなばた | しちせき - Festival of the Weaver (July 7th)/Star Festival
  • - しちみとうがらし - blend of seven spices (cayenne, sesame, Japanese pepper, citrus peel, etc.)
  • き | - しっぽうやき - cloisonne ware
  • | - しちりん - earthen charcoal brazier (for cooking)
  • | | しめ | - しめなわ - (shinto) rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil
  • | - しちしちにち | なななぬか | なななのか - 49th day after death
  • - しっちんまんぽう - the seven treasures and many other precious things/all the treasures in the world
  • べ - しちならべ - fan-tan (card game)/sevens/parliament
  • | - しちてんばっとう | しってんばっとう - tossing oneself about in great pain/writhing in agony
  • - しちこうさんみん - land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent
  • - しちごんりっし - poem of eight lines, each of seven (Chinese) characters
  • - しちじゅうこき - Men seldom live to be seventy (Du Fu (c.712-c.770))/Few people live to be seventy
  • くて - なくてななくせ - Every man has his own peculiar habits
  • - しちごんぜっく - poem of four lines, each of seven (Chinese) characters
  • - しょなのか | しょなぬか - memorial service held on the seventh day following a person's death
  • - しっぽうで - seven disguises of the ninja
  • - なないろとうがらし - type of spice containing seven ingredients
  • - しちなん - the Seven Misfortunes | great number of faults or defects
  • - しちしょうほうこく - unfailing devotion to one's country
  • | - ななほしてんとう | ナナホシテントウ - seven-spot ladybird/seven-spotted ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata)
  • | り - ななひかり - profiting from the influence of another
  • - しちなんはっく - the Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains | a series of disasters
  • - しちさん - 7 or 3 ratio/hair parted on one side
  • - ななくさがゆ - rice gruel containing the seven plants of spring
  • - ななかまど | ナナカマド - mountain ash/Japanese rowan/sorbus commixta
  • - ななほん - seven (long cylindrical things)
  • - しゅうなのか - seven days a week
  • き - よなぬき - pentatonic scale (music)
  • - しちようひょう - calendar
  • - しちめんたい - heptahedron
  • - しじゅうしちし - The 47 Ronin
  • - しちみ - seven delicious flavors (flavours) | blend of seven spices (cayenne, sesame, Japanese pepper, citrus peel, etc.)/shichimi