Keyword
good luck
Info
FrequencyTop 1400-1500
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 3
Heisig342
Readings
きつ
(51%)
きち
(40%)
きっ
(6%)
よし
(1%)
Composed of
professional
mouth
Mnemonic

A true professional sportsman will always open his mouth before a match and wish his opponent good luck.

Used in kanji (9 in total)
tied together
packed with
bellflower
be imminent
Used in vocabulary (69 in total)
good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious
excellent luck
lucky omen; happy; auspicious
10,000 yen note
lucky omen; good omen
lucky day; auspicious day; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
good or bad luck; fortune
no time like the present; make hay while the sun shines; (lit.) it's an auspicious day (for doing it) when you've just had the idea
slightly good luck (as a fortune telling result)
good luck to come (omikuji fortune-telling result); future good luck
United Kingdom; Britain; Great Britain; England
broadbanded thornyhead (Sebastolobus macrochir); broadfin thornyhead; kichiji rockfish
auspicious event
festive annual custom
Yoshino cherry (Prunus yedoensis)
Kakitsu era (1441.2.17-1444.2.5)
very auspicious day for all types of occasions (one of the six special days in the Japanese lunisolar calendar)
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
favourable direction; favorable direction; lucky direction
Sri-mahadevi (consort of Vaishravana)
sweet dumpling made with mochi flour and (sometimes) millet flour (famous product of Okayama); millet dumplings
auspicious dream; well-boding dream
Kibi (former province located in present-day Okayama and parts of Hiroshima, Hyōgo and Kagawa prefectures; later split into Bizen, Bitchu and Bingo provinces)
man of incorruptible character
Yoshinoya gyudon (beef on rice)
good and bad fortune, and weal and woe
Jilin Province (China)
auspicious appearance; good or lucky omen
early Japanese Christianity (from the later Muromachi period); early Japanese Christian
jingisukan; grilled mutton and vegetable dish; slotted dome cast iron grill (used for jingisukan)
Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE)
lucky day; auspicious occasion
Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE)
guide to the Yoshiwara red light district
very auspicious day
Sumiyoshi Station (Tokyo)
Reineckea carnea (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family)
reed warbler (esp. the great reed warbler, but also the black-browed reed warbler)
very auspicious day for all types of occasions
Yoshino Station
first calligraphy of the year
Yoshida Shinto; fusion of Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism stressing traditional Japanese elements
young striped mullet
jewel beetle (esp. Chrysochroa fulgidissima); buprestid
lucky omen; good omen
ehōmaki; uncut sushi roll eaten during setsubun
ehōmaki; uncut sushi roll eaten during setsubun
silver-stripe round herring (Spratelloides gracilis)
slotted dome cast iron grill for preparing jingisukan; jingisukan (mutton and vegetable dish)
jingisukan; Japanese mutton and vegetable dish
Yoshikawa Shinto (Confucianist form of Shinto, stripped of Buddhist influence)
Hie Shinto (form of Shinto heavily influenced by Tendai)
language used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period
Mohe (one of the Tungusic-speaking tribes)
earth form of "good luck" character
earth form of "good luck" character
Hiyoshi Station (Kanagawa)
Yoshitomi Station (Kyoto)
Yoshihama Station
Jishou City
Yoshita Station
Examples (7 in total)
Mr Yoshimoto taught us many trivial matters.
Four is an unlucky number in Japan.
He believes in the superstition that 13 is an unlucky number.