由 – Kanji details

Keyword

reason

Info

Frequency	Top 200-300
Type	Kyōiku (3rd grade) ?
Kanken	Level 8
Heisig	1186
Readings	ゆう (56%) け (38%) ゆ (3%) よし (1%)
	ゆいよ

Mnemonic components

丨

stick

田

rice field

Mnemonic

I wonder, what is the reason why someone would put a single stick in the middle of a rice field? Maybe they're building a scarecrow...?

Used in kanji (30 in total)

drawing

delivery

thin in volume

spread out

midair

yellow

oil

specialty

favored

tie up

sleeve

flute

take out

citron

axis

???

pongee

weasel

sign of the tiger

prow

glaze

summons

wide [old]

in the mountains

bloodline

millipede

flute reed

school

road to enlightenment

Used in vocabulary (204 in total)

理り由ゆう

reason; pretext; motive

自じ由ゆう

freedom; liberty

不ふ自じ由ゆう

discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; inability; disability

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Examples (200 in total)

これが、彼かれがそうした理り由ゆうです。

This is the reason why he did it.

これが私わたしがここへ来きた理り由ゆうだ。

This is the reason I came here.

その理り由ゆうが知しりたいんだ。

I need to know the reasons why.

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