Keyword
regulate
- rhythm
- law
- regulation
- gauge
- control
- Frequency
- #992
- Strokes
- 9
- Grade
- 6
- JLPT (old)
- N2
- Heisig
- 939
Readings
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Mnemonic
You stand still with a brush in hand and paint white lines on the road to regulate the traffic.
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Used in kanji
Used in vocabulary
律
law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (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); step (in traditional Eastern music, corresponding to a Western semitone)
Noun
二律背反
antinomy; self-contradiction; either-or situation; choice between mutually exclusive alternatives
Noun
律令
ritsuryō; criminal, administrative and civil codes of the Nara and Heian eras based on Chinese models
Noun
律令制
ritsuryō system; ancient East Asian system of centralized governance; in Japan: esp. 7th-10th century
Noun