Kanji: 忌

    • Meaning : mourning,abhor,detestable,"death anniversary"
    • ON reading :
    • KUN reading : い.む,い.み,い.まわしい
    • Nanori : いまわ
    • Stroke count : 7
    • Frequency of use ranking : 1882
    • Jouyou grade level : 8
    • JLPT : 1
    • Radical : 心 (忄)

Words containing that kanji:


  • | - きびききゅうか - condolence leave
  • - き - mourning/mourning period | anniversary of one's death
  • - いっかいき - first death anniversary
  • - いっしゅうき - first anniversary of death
  • - かいき - death anniversary
  • | み | み | - いみ - mourning/abstinence | taboo | religious purification | pure/holy
  • - きひ - evasion/shirking/avoidance | challenge/(taking) exception
  • む | む | む - いむ - to avoid/to refrain from/to shun | to detest
  • - きたん - reserve/modesty
  • まわしい - いまわしい - abominable
  • - きにち | きじつ - an anniversary of a person's death
  • - きちゅう - mourning
  • - きき | きい - displeasure/offense/offence/disliking
  • - きんき - taboo
  • - ぶっき | ぶくき - mourning/period of mourning
  • - いみき - Imiki (fourth highest of the eight hereditary titles)
  • | - いがき - fence around a shrine
  • | - いみび - unlucky day/death anniversary/purification and fast day
  • - しちかいき - seventh anniversary of a death
  • - しちねんき - seventh anniversary of a death
  • - おうとうき - anniversary that celebrates author Dazai Osamu's birthday, and incidentally, the day his body was found after he was involved in a double suicide
  • - しゅうき - death anniversary
  • | み - ねいみ - collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first day of the rat of the new year)
  • - ねんき - death anniversary/Buddhist anniversary service
  • - へいえききひ - evading the draft/evading the draught
  • | | | - いみことば - taboo word | euphemism (used in place of a taboo word)
  • 々しい | しい | ましい - いまいましい - annoying/provoking
  • - おんき | えんき - 13th or later anniversary of a death
  • - けんき | けんぎ - dislike/aversion
  • み - ものいみ - fasting/abstinence/confinement to one's house on an unlucky day
  • - はいごうきんき - incompatibility (of drugs)
  • - ちょうへいきひしゃ - draft dodger/draught dodger
  • - ちょうへいきひ - draft evasion/draught evasion
  • - さいばんかんきひ - challenging a judge
  • け - きあけ | いみあけ - end of mourning
  • - だるまき - ceremony held in honor (honour) of Bodhidharma (October 5th)
  • | き - きびき - absence from work (school) due to mourning
  • け - いみあけ - end of mourning
  • - さんかいき - second anniversary of a death
  • う | う - いみきらう - to detest/to abhor/to loathe
  • まわしい - いまわしいじけん - abominable incident
  • むべき - いむべき - abominable/detestable
  • - きふく - mourning
  • ける - きがあける - to come out of mourning