Kanji: 律

    • Meaning : rhythm,law,regulation,gauge,control
    • ON reading : リツ,リチ,レツ
    • KUN reading :
    • Nanori : たかし,のり
    • Stroke count : 9
    • Frequency of use ranking : 992
    • Jouyou grade level : 6
    • JLPT : 2
    • Radical :

Words containing that kanji:


  • - むじゅんりつ - law of contradiction (logic)
  • - じどうりつ - law of identity (logic)
  • - じりつどうさ - autonomous action
  • - ふぃりっぴん | フィリピン | フイリピン - Philippines
  • メッセージ - じりつメッセージ - autonomous message
  • コンピューティング - じりつコンピューティング - autonomic computing
  • - いちりつげんたん - reduction in area of rice under cultivation
  • - いちりつ - evenness/uniformity/monotony/equality
  • - いんりつ - rhythm/metre (poet)
  • - おうごんりつ - The Golden Rule ("do unto others as you would have them do unto you")
  • - おんりつ - metre/rhythm/musical temperament
  • - かいりつ - (religious) precept/discipline/commandment/mitzvah
  • | - きりつ - order/observance/discipline | rules/law/regulations
  • - ていせんりつ - cantus firmus/plainsong/plainchant
  • - ぐんりつ - martial law/articles of war/military disciple/military law
  • - けいりつ - criminal law
  • - げんりつ - strict law
  • する - りっする - to judge (on the basis of) | to regulate/to decide
  • - たいほうりつりょう - Taiho Code (701 CE)
  • ピタゴラス - ピタゴラスおんりつ - Pythagorean temperament/Pythagorean tuning
  • - りつせんぽう | りっせんぽう - Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) similar to Dorian mode
  • - ようろうりつりょう - Yoro Code (757 CE)
  • - ちゅうぜんおんりつ - meantone temperament
  • - かいりつしゅう - Ritsu (school of Buddhism)
  • - じゅうにりつ - ancient Chinese chromatic scale (primarily used in Japan for gagaku, etc.)
  • - りつおんかい - ritsu scale (anhemitonic pentatonic scale primarily used in gagaku: re, mi, so, la, ti)
  • - じりつ - autonomy
  • - じりつしんけい - autonomic nerves
  • - あすかきよみはらりつりょう - Asuka Kiyomihara Code (689 CE)
  • - りっしゅう - Ritsu (school of Buddhism)
  • - じゅんせいりつ - just temperament/pure temperament
  • - りっかん - ancient Chinese pitch pipe (12 pipes corresponding to the ancient Chinese chromatic scale)
  • - せんりつてきたんおんかい - melodic minor scale
  • - ほうりつじけん - legal case
  • - りつりょうじだい - Ritsuryo period (mid 7th-10th centuries CE)
  • - せんりつ - melody/tune
  • - たりつ - heteronomy/subjection/subordination
  • - げんそしゅうきりつひょう - periodic law
  • 調 - ちょうりつ - tuning (musical)
  • - げんそしゅうきりつ - periodic table of the elements
  • - どういつりつ - law of identity/principle of identity
  • - はいちゅうりつ - law of excluded middle
  • - にりつはいはん - antinomy/self-contradiction
  • - はいたりつ - exclusion principle (physics)
  • - ふきりつ - irregular/undisciplined/disorganized/disorganised/slipshod
  • - ふぶんりつ - unwritten law/unwritten rule/common law
  • - へいきんりつ - temperament (music)/equal (or even) temperament
  • - ほうりつじょう - legal
  • - ほうりつ - law
  • | - りちぎ - honesty/faithfulness/conscientiousness/integrity
  • - りつ - law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code)/regulation | vinaya (rules for the monastic community) | Ritsu (school of Buddhism) | lushi (style of Chinese poem) | (musical) pitch | six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale | Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale, similar to Dorian mode (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) | (in traditional Eastern music) step (corresponding to a Western semitone)
  • - りつりょう | りつれい - criminal, administrative and civil codes (forming the basis of ancient East Asian law; orig. Chinese)/legal codes of the Nara and Heian eras based on Chinese models
  • - りつどう - rhythm
  • に | に - いちりつに - in the same way
  • | - せんぺんいちりつ - humdrum/lack of variety/monotony/stereotypical
  • - がくりつ - metre or rhythm in Chinese and Japanese traditional music
  • ろれつがらない | らない - ろれつがまわらない - speaking inarticulately (slurring, lisping, etc.)
  • - どうとくりつ - moral law
  • - しちごんりっし - poem of eight lines, each of seven (Chinese) characters
  • - いんがりつ - law of cause and effect/principle of causality
  • 鹿 - ばかりちぎ - honest and straightforward to a fault
  • - ごごんりっし - poem of eight lines, each of five (Chinese) characters
  • - ろれつ - articulation
  • - むきりつ - lawless/unregulated
  • - しゅうきりつ - periodic law
  • 調 - ちょうりつし - piano tuner
  • 調 - じりつしんけいしっちょうしょう - autonomic ataxia
  • - りつりょうこっか - the Japanese nation under the ritsuryo codes
  • | - りちぎもの - honest or conscientious person
  • - りつりょうせい - ritsuryo system (ancient East Asian system of centralized governance; in Japan: esp. 7th-10th century)
  • - りっせん - Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do, i.e. the Dorian mode)
  • - りっぽう - law/rule/commandment | the Torah (the law of God as revealed to Moses)
  • - りっし - ancient Chinese verse form
  • - りつぶん - legal provisions/verse
  • - りっし - Buddhist priest
  • - りつご - well-shaped verse
  • - みんじほうりつふじょせいど - civil legal aid system (e.g. legal aid for poor people)
  • - みんじほうりつふじょ - civil legal aid system (e.g. legal aid for poor people)
  • - せいぶんりつ - written or statutory law
  • - ていりつ - fixed law
  • - ほうりつこうい - legal action
  • - ほうりつもんだい - legal problem
  • - ほうりつがく - jurisprudence
  • - ほうりつか - lawyer/jurist
  • - ほうりついはん - violation of the law
  • - ほうりつようご - legal (law) term
  • - ほうりつあん - (legislative) bill
  • - ほうりつそうだん - legal consultation/(giving) legal advice
  • - ほうりつせいど - legal system
  • - ほうりつじむしょ - law office
  • - りつりょ - standard tones/Chinese system of musical sounds
  • - しぜんりつ - natural law
  • - りつりょうきゃくしき - codes of laws and ethics (T'ang Code)
  • える - ほうりつをかえる - to revise (amend) the law