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Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N3

571 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 8

Meaning: easy, ready to, simple, fortune-telling, divination

Kunyomi: やさ.しい, やす.い

Onyomi: エキ, イ

Composition: 日 勿

易

Radical

Radical: 日

Reading: ひ

Meaning: sun, day

Strokes: 4

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Examples

Examples with audio

易者(えきしゃ)   fortuneteller

貿易(ぼうえき)   trade [n.]

容易な(よういな)   easy

安易な(あんいな)   easy-going

難易度(なんいど)   degree of difficulty

易しい(やさしい)   easy

壊れ易い(こわれやすい)   fragile

Onyomi Examples

易 (エキ) type of cleromancy divination (described in the Book of Changes) performed with long sticks, The Book of Changes, Yijing, I Ching

易学 (エキガク) study of divination

改易 (カイエキ) loss of samurai status and confiscation of territory and property (Edo-period punishment)

加工交易 (カコウコウエキ) processing trade (importing all or part of raw and auxiliary materials, parts, components, accessories, and packaging materials in bond from a foreign company, and re-exporting the finished products after processing or assembly for distribution and sale by that foreign company)

易 (イ) easiness

易々 (イイ) easy, simple, plain

簡易 (カンイ) simple, simplified, easy, plain

難易 (ナンイ) (relative) difficulty

Kunyomi Examples

易しい (やさしい) easy, plain, simple

やさしい日本語 (やさしいにほんご) easy Japanese (that is easily understood by non-native speakers, children, etc.)

易い (やすい) easy, likely to ..., have a tendency to ..., easy to ...

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