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Keyword
joint
  • node
  • season
  • period
  • occasion
  • verse
  • clause
  • stanza
  • honor
  • knuckle
  • knob
  • knot
  • tune
  • melody
Frequency
#934
Strokes
13
Grade
4
JLPT (old)
N2
Heisig
1574
Readings
セツ71%
セチ12%
ふし12%
ぶし6%
Mnemonic
Bamboo, in an instant, forms a ring at each knot: each joint is where the plant can bend.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in kanji
Used in vocabulary
季き節せつ
season; time of year
Noun
節せつ
occasion; time; section (of a literary work or piece of music); passage; paragraph; verse; stanza; clause; season; term; …
Noun
節ふし
joint; knuckle; tune; melody; node (of a plant stem); knot (in wood); knob; (notable) point; part; node
Noun
節せつ約やく
saving (e.g. time, money, resources); economising; economizing
Noun
節ふし目め
turning point; critical juncture; knot (in a tree, etc.)
Noun
調ちょう節せつ
regulation; adjustment; control
Noun
使し節せつ
envoy; ambassador; delegate; emissary; mission
Noun
お節せち料りょう理り
osechi; osechi-ryōri; traditional food eaten during the New Year's holidays
Noun
お節せち
osechi; food eaten during the New Year's Holidays
Noun
一いっ節せつ
one passage; one paragraph; one stanza; one verse; one section (of a piece of music); one syllable
Noun
節せつ減げん
retrenchment; curtailment; economy
Noun
節せつ度ど
moderation; standard
Noun
削けずり節ぶし
flaked bonito
Noun
国こっ慶けい節せつ
anniversary of founding (of PRC); national celebration time
Noun
節ノット
knot (nautical mile per hour)
Noun
節ぶし
characteristic way of speaking
Suffix
節よ
space between two nodes (on bamboo, etc.)
Noun
節せち
season; time of the year; seasonal festival; seasonal banquet; seasonal feast
Noun
節せつ分ぶん
setsubun; last day of winter in the traditional Japanese calendar (usu. February 3 or 4) on which a bean scattering ceremony is held; last day of any season (according to the traditional Japanese calendar)
Noun
お節せっ介かい
meddling; meddlesomeness; nosiness; interference; officiousness; meddler; buttinsky; busybody
Na-adjective
節せっ句く
seasonal festival
Noun
節せつ電でん
saving electricity; power saving; reducing electricity usage; reducing power consumption
Noun