Kanji N3

列: file, row, rank

列 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning file, row, rank, written with 6 strokes. It is read レツ, レ (on), and has no common kun reading. Children in Japan learn it in grade 3. You will see it in 列車 (れっしゃ, train) and 列 (れつ, row).

列

Meanings

  • file
  • row
  • rank
  • tier
  • column
Strokes6
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 3
Frequency#927 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • レツ
  • レ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • None in common use

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 列

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 列車れっしゃ

    train; railway train

    JLPT N3
  • 列れつ

    row; line; file; column; queue; rank; procession

    JLPT N3
  • 列島れっとう

    archipelago; chain of islands

    JLPT N2
  • 行列ぎょうれつ

    line; queue; procession; parade

    JLPT N2
  • 配列はいれつ

    arranging; ordering; sequencing; lining up

    JLPT N1
  • 並列へいれつ

    arranging in a line; standing in a row

    JLPT N1
  • 陳列ちんれつ

    exhibition; display; putting on show

    JLPT N1
  • 整列せいれつ

    standing in a row; forming a line; alignment

    JLPT N1

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.