Keyword
easy
Info
FrequencyTop 1000-1100
Type
Kyōiku (5th grade) 
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KankenLevel 6
Heisig1130
Readings
(53%)
やす
(24%)
えき
(20%)
やさ
(1%)
Composed of
sun
must not
Mnemonic

You must not look directly at the sun! It's very easy to permanently damage your eyesight if you do that.

Used in kanji (6 in total)
grant
lizard
tin
cutting
Used in vocabulary (195 in total)
easy; simple; plain
easy; simple; easygoing; lighthearted; simplistic
easy; simple; light
degree of difficulty; difficulty level
simplicity; convenience; easiness; quasi-
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
trade; commerce
trade (foreign)
to be fed up (with); to be tired (of); to be stumped; to be nonplussed; to wince; to shrink back
easily; readily; with ease; without trouble
simple; easy; quick
easy; simple; plain
type of cleromancy divination (described in the Book of Changes) performed with long sticks; The Book of Changes; Yijing; I Ching
easy to understand
easy; plain; simple
to facilitate; to make easy; to simplify
easy; simple; plain
simplified version; abridged edition
fortuneteller; diviner
change of rank
relaxed; familiar; easy to access; friendly
it is easier to do something than worry about it; fear overruns the danger; (lit.) it is easier to bear (a child) than to worry about it
mobile toilet; portable toilet; simple toilet
intimate; carefree; familiar; friendly
easy to deal with; tractable; manageable
difficulty; relative difficulty
constancy; immutable
easy to read; legible; clear
sensitive; susceptible; impressionable
simplification
foreign trade; external trade
easy to see; easy to read; easy to understand; (arch.) easy to look at; (arch.) attractive
friendly; easy to get on with; easy to talk to; easy to like
international trade; foreign trade; overseas trade
easy to make; easy to do
international trade; international trading
public lodging house; simple lodging (including pensions, private lodging and capsule hotels)
The Book of Changes; Yijing; I Ching
it's easier said than done; (lit.) saying is easy; doing is hard
manageable; tractable; easy to care for; easy to deal with; easy to handle
Nanban trade; Japanese trade with Spain and Portugal (1543-1641)
easy to deal with; easily manageable; tractable; malleable
study of divination
prone (to); liable (to); apt (to); tending (to)
World Trade Organization (Organisation); WTO
licensed trade between Japan and Ming-dynasty China during the Muromachi period
cafeteria; snack bar; lunch counter
articles of commerce
greasy; slimy; slippery
easy; simple; plain
comfortable to live in (of a neighborhood, etc.); convenient; congenial; agreeable
divination; fortunetelling
it is easier to do something than worry about it; fear overruns the danger; (lit.) it is easier to bear (a child) than to worry about it
eternally unchanging
easy to drink; easy to swallow; quaffable
the easy way; attaining rebirth in the Pure Land through the vows of Amitabha (as opposed to one's own efforts)
easiness
easy; simple; light
fragile; break easily
amount of trade; trade volume
prefab; prefabricated house
divination (based on the Book of Changes)
the principle of fluidity and immutability in haiku; Haiku is both "fluid and transitory" and "eternal and immutable."; An interchange between the transient and the immutable is central to the soul of haiku. (Basho)
foreign trade by authorized Japanese ships (early Edo period)
trade between Japan and USA
simplified registered mail; recorded delivery
change; alteration
revolution (change of dynasty) decreed by Heaven when the incumbent emperor is found lacking in moral virtue (old Chinese political thought)
trade liberalization; trade liberalisation
eternally unchanging
simplified language
transit trade; entrepôt trade
public lodging house; simple lodging (including pensions, private lodging and capsule hotels)
easy; light; simple
changeable; unsettled; inconstant; fickle (e.g. weather)
brittle; fragile; easily cracked; perishable
simplified form (of a kanji); any of 22 simplified non-joyo kanji variants commonly used in print
to take the easy way out; to take the path of least resistance
simplification
easily; readily; with ease; without trouble
trade with the United States
accessible; approachable; easy to approach
tiring easily; easy to tire
simple, easy, and convenient
trade dispute; trade conflict; trade war
study hard while you are young; (lit.) boys grow old easily but getting learned is harder
postal life insurance
easily bored; quick to lose interest; fickle; capricious
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
susceptible; vulnerable; prone (to)
people don't know themselves as well as they know others; even if you know what will happen to others, you don't know what will happen to yourself; (lit.) a fortune teller can't tell their own future
simple and clear; plain and lucid
postal life insurance; post-office life insurance
ultra-simple; very easy
susceptibility to infection; lack of resistance to infection
one-sided trade; one way (unbalanced) trade
free trade zone; free trade area
commodity shunting; roundabout trade
transit trade; entrepôt trade
trade fair; trade exposition
accessible; approachable; easy to approach
transit trade; entrepôt trade
to take the easy way out; to take the path of least resistance
easily torn; tearable; tear easily; scissile; lacerable
easiness; simpleness
easily flowing (ink, make-up, etc.); easy spreading
getting tired easily
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (abolished in 1995); GATT
pliant; supple; flexible
unlimited trade; unrestricted trade
intermediary trade; trade conducted via an agency
regional trade; intra-trade
degree of dependence on foreign trade
fragile article
controlled trade; government-managed trade
the death of a scholar
ocean trade; trade by sea
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (abolished in 1995); GATT
three methods of Chinese divination (Lian Shan of the Xia period, Gui Cang of the Yin period and Zhou Yi of the Zhou period)
living is difficult; dying is easy
it is easy to start an enterprise but hard to maintain it
processing trade (importing all or part of raw and auxiliary materials, parts, components, accessories, and packaging materials in bond from a foreign company, and re-exporting the finished products after processing or assembly for distribution and sale by that foreign company)
microblog; microblogging
silent trade; dumb barter; depot trade
it's hard to discipline one's mind; (lit.) defeating the bandits in the mountains is easy; defeating the bandit in one's heart is hard
1962 trade agreement between Japan and China
to replace one tyranny by another; to use violence against violence
to replace one tyranny by another; to use violence against violence
Examples (141 in total)
It's not easy being honest all the time.
It is not easy to be understood by everybody.
It is by no means easy to please everybody.