Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1882 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 7

Meaning: mourning, abhor, detestable, death anniversary

Kunyomi: い.む い.み い.まわしい

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: heart

Examples

Onyomi Examples

mourning, mourning period, anniversary of one's death

キヒ evasion, avoidance, shirking, recusation (of a judge), taking exception (to a judge), challenge

カイキ death anniversary

七回 シチカイキ sixth anniversary of a death

Kunyomi Examples

いむ to avoid, to refrain from, to shun, to detest

むべき いむべき abominable, detestable

いみ mourning, abstinence, taboo, religious purification, pure, holy

み明け いみあけ end of mourning

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)

ものいみ fasting, abstinence, confinement to one's house on an unlucky day

まわしい いまわしい unpleasant, disagreeable, abominable, disgusting, unsavory, unlucky, inauspicious, ominous