際
occasion; edge; side; verge; dangerous; adventurous; indecent; time
14 strokes. Taught in grade 5. Newspaper frequency rank 183.
Readings
- サイ (on reading): 実際 (じっさい) truly; 際 (さい) occasion
- きわ (kun reading): 間際 (まぎわ) the point just before ...; 際立つ (きわだつ) to be prominent
- ぎわ (kun reading)
- Read as a whole word: 今際 (いまわ) one's last moments
Components
- ⻖
- 祭
- ノ radical slash, katakana no
- 二 radical two
- 小 radical small
- ⻖ radical mound; hill, left-side form of 阜
- 癶 radical dotted tent; footsteps
- 示 radical altar; show
Words using 際
- 実際 (じっさい) truly
- 際 (さい) occasion
- 国際 (こくさい) international
- 際する (さいする) to arrive
- 国際連合 (こくさいれんごう) United Nations
- 間際 (まぎわ) the point just before ...
- 際立つ (きわだつ) to be prominent
- 窓際 (まどぎわ) at the window
- 際どい (きわどい) risky
- 帰り際 (かえりぎわ) time of departure
- 今際 (いまわ) one's last moments
- 根際 (ねき) (one's) side
508 words in all.