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Kanji Detail for 遺 - "leave behind, remain, inherit"

  • Meaning

    遺 means "leave behind, remain, inherit."

    1. Leave behind - To bequeath; to pass on.

    2. Remain - What stays after; a remnant.

    3. Forget - To fail to remember.

    4. Lose - To misplace; to drop.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    bequeath; leave behind; reserve

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    lose; articles lost; omit

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    (bound form) to leave behind

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to lose; a lost article

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To lose. To accidentally omit something. As in 拾遺 (gather what was lost), 補遺 (supplement what was omitted). | Remaining. Something that has passed but not completely vanished. As in 遺恨 (lingering regret), 遺事 (past events). | To leave behind. Leaving something for posterity is called 遺. As in 遺囑 (will; testament), 遺傳 (inheritance; heredity). | Urination is called 遺. 小遺 is like the colloquial expression for "relieving oneself," referring to excreta. | To present as a gift.
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