Kanji N1

節: node, season, period

節 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning node, season, period, written with 13 strokes. It is read セツ, セチ (on) and ふし, のっと (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 4. You will see it in 季節 (きせつ, season) and 節 (せつ, occasion).

節

Meanings

  • node
  • season
  • period
  • occasion
  • verse
  • clause
  • stanza
  • honor
  • joint
  • knuckle
  • knob
  • knot
  • tune
  • melody
Strokes13
JLPT levelN1
School gradeGrade 4
Frequency#934 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • セツ
  • セチ

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

Kun reading
  • ふし
  • -ぶし
  • のっと

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 節

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

  • 季節きせつ

    season; time of year

    JLPT N4
  • 節せつ

    occasion; time

    JLPT N1
  • 節約せつやく

    saving (e.g. time, money, resources)

    JLPT N3
  • 調節ちょうせつ

    regulation; adjustment; control

    JLPT N2
  • 節目ふしめ

    turning point; critical juncture

  • 使節しせつ

    envoy; ambassador; delegate; emissary; mission

  • 関節かんせつ

    joint

  • 節減せつげん

    retrenchment; curtailment; economy

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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; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.