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Kanji Detail for 暦 - "calendar"

  • Meaning

    暦 means "calendar." Also associated with fate, record.

    1. Calendar - A system for determining seasons and dates based on celestial movements; also the written record.

    2. Fate - Destiny; fortune; karma.

  • Words using

    • 西暦 せいれき Listen Common Era; CE; Christian Era
    • 還暦 かんれき Listen kanreki; one's 60th birthday (or 61st in the traditional age reckoning system) when one has lived through a full sexagenary cycle
  • Name readings of

    Given names (こよみ)Listen (れき)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    calendar; almanac

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    calendar, era

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    Japanese variant of 曆|历[li4]
  • Onyomi

    tip
  • Kunyomi

    tip
  • Strokes

    tip
  • Radical

    tip
  • Related Keywords

Sentences including

  • What day is it today on the Julian calendar?

  • My grandfather on my mother's side is celebrating his 60th birthday tomorrow.

  • The Mayan calendar has 19 months.

  • The 10th year of Showa is 1935 in the Western calendar.

  • My grandfather on my mother's side is celebrating his 60th birthday tomorrow.

  • In China, they celebrate New Year by the lunar calendar.

  • My grandfather on my mother's side is celebrating his 60th birthday tomorrow.

  • Ancient Egypt used a solar calendar with 365 days in a year.

  • In Japan, it is said that in the tenth month of the lunar calendar, all the gods of the country gather at Izumo-taisha, and so the tenth month, when the gods disappear from various regions, is called "the month without gods". However, in the Izumo region, where the gods gather, it is also called "the month with gods".

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