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Keyword
reason
  • wherefore
  • a reason
Frequency
#325
Strokes
5
Grade
3
JLPT (old)
N2
Heisig
1186
Readings
ユウ67%
ユ17%
ユイ8%
よし8%
Mnemonic
A farmer walks to the center of his rice field and spots one lone pole standing there; the reason it is there is a scarecrow in the making.
Stroke order
Used in kanji
Used in vocabulary
理り由ゆう
reason; grounds; pretext; excuse; motive
Noun
自じ由ゆう
freedom; liberty
Noun
由よし
reason; significance; cause; piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...
Noun
経けい由ゆ
going through; going via; going by way of
Noun
由ゆ来らい
origin; source; history; derivation; originally; from the start; by nature
Noun
自じ由ゆう化か
liberalization; liberalisation; freeing
Noun
不ふ自じ由ゆう
discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; destitution; lack; inability; disability; impairment (physical, mental, etc.); nonfluency (in a language)
Noun
自じ由ゆう形がた
freestyle (e.g. swimming event)
Noun
自じ由ゆう業ぎょう
self-employed profession (e.g. actor, artist); liberal profession
Noun
肢し体たい不ふ自じ由ゆう児じ
physically disabled child; child with a physical disability
Noun
由ゆ々ゆしい
grave; serious; alarming
I-adjective
自じ由ゆう民みん主しゅ党とう
Liberal Democratic Party; LDP; Free Democratic Party (Germany); FDP
Noun
自じ由ゆう自じ在ざい
free; unrestricted; (with) complete mastery; completely in control
Na-adjective
自じ由ゆう労ろう働どう者しゃ
casual laborer (labourer); day laborer (labourer)
Noun
由ゆい緒しょ
history; pedigree; lineage
Noun
事じ由ゆう
reason; cause; whys and wherefores; particulars
Noun
自じ由ゆう党とう
Liberal Party
Noun
由ゆ縁えん
acquaintance; relation; affinity; reason
Noun
由ゆ々ゆしき
grave; serious; alarming
Prenominal
自じ由ゆう時じ報ほう
Liberty Times (Taiwanese newspaper)
Noun