易 – vocab dash

Keyword

easy

ready to
simple
fortune-telling
divination

Frequency: #571
Strokes: 8
Grade: 5
JLPT (old): N2
Heisig: 1130

Readings

イ56%

エキ22%

やさ11%

やす11%

Mnemonic

A bright sun beats down and your mom warns you must not look up; it is easy to hurt your eyes.

Stroke order

Composed of

日sun 勿must not

Used in kanji

錫tin 賜grant 剔cutting 埸border 惕be cautious 逷distant 裼to bare the shoulder 舓to lick 蜴lizard 踢kick 鯣cuttlefish 鶍crossbill

Used in vocabulary

貿ぼう易えき

(foreign) trade; (international) commerce; importing and exporting

Noun

容よう易い

easy; simple; plain

Na-adjective

難なん易い

(relative) difficulty

Noun

易やさしい

easy; plain; simple

I-adjective

安あん易い

easy; simple; easygoing; lighthearted; simplistic; irresponsible; careless; quick (to do)

Na-adjective

簡かん易い

simple; simplified; easy; plain

Na-adjective

簡かん易い保ほ険けん

postal life insurance

Noun

easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...

I-adjective

保ほ護ご貿ぼう易えき

protective trade

Noun

交こう易えき

trade; commerce

Noun

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

Noun

easiness

Noun

容易たやすい

easy; simple; light

I-adjective

平へい易い

easy; simple; plain

Na-adjective

辟へき易えき

to be fed up (with); to be tired (of); to be bored (with); to be unable to bear; to be stumped; to be nonplussed; to be disconcerted; to wince; to shrink back; to cringe

Suru verb

見み易やすい

easy to see; easy to read; easy to understand

I-adjective

気き易やすい

relaxed; familiar; easy to access; friendly

I-adjective

生なま易やさしい

simple; easy

I-adjective

easy; simple; plain

Taru-adjective

易やす々やす

easily; readily; with ease; without trouble

Adverb

改かい易えき

loss of samurai status and confiscation of territory and property (Edo-period punishment)

Noun

易えき者しゃ

fortuneteller; diviner

Noun

不ふ易えき

constancy; immutable

Na-adjective

易えき学がく

study of divination

Noun