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吉

good luck
Stroke count: 6

Readings

On readingキチ、キツ
Kun readingよし
JōyōGrade 8KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. good luckRtK
    彼は１３が不吉な数だという迷信を信じている。He believes in the superstition that 13 is an unlucky number.tatoeba
    彼は、吉川元春が好き。He likes Motoharu Kikkawa.tatoeba
  2. joy
  3. congratulations
  1. good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result)
  2. auspiciousness
  3. unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)

Radicals and components

Radical口mouth囗variant
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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samurai · mouth (口)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 342

Compound words

徳川吉宗とくがわよしむね
Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684–1751), eighth Tokugawa shogun, known for the Kyōhō Reforms and planting Tokyo's cherry trees.
吉兆きっちょう
lucky omen; good omen
吉報きっぽう
good news
不吉ふきつ
ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious
吉凶きっきょう
good or bad luck
吉祥きっしょう
lucky omen
吉徴きっちょう
lucky omen
英吉利イギリス
United Kingdom
吉丁虫たまむし
jewel beetle (esp. Chrysochroa fulgidissima)
吉備団子きびだんご
sweet dumpling made with mochi flour and (sometimes) millet flour (famous product of Okayama)
吉利支丹キリシタン
Christianity (in feudal Japan)
成吉思汗ジンギスかん
jingisukan

Additional Examples

渋谷駅で偶然吉行さんに会ってね。
I ran into Mr Yoshiyuki at Shibuya station.tatoeba
私は吉雄ほど忙しくない。
I am not as busy as Yoshio.tatoeba

Stroke Order

6 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 吉

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