解 (absolve, answer, cancel, explain, explanation, key, minute, notes, solve, understanding, undo, unravel, untie) - Kanji Codex

解

absolve, answer, cancel, explain, explanation, key, minute, notes, solve, understanding, undo, unravel, untie

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

カイゲ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

さと.ると.かすと.くと.けるほど.くほど.けるわか.る

Nanori (名乗り)

さとるとけ

Stroke Order

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Information

Grade:5

Strokes:13

JLPT:3

Frequency:176

Vocabulary

カイ

Word	Reading	Meaning
解禁	カイキン	lifting a ban; raising an embargo; opening a season (hunting, fishing, etc.); publishing contents; revealing information
解決	カイケツ	settlement; solution; resolution
解雇	カイコ	dismissal (of an employee); discharge; firing; layoff
解散	カイサン	breaking up (a meeting, gathering, etc.); dispersal (e.g. of a crowd); dissolution (of a company, organization, etc.); winding-up; disbandment; split-up; dissolution (of the Diet, Parliament, etc.)
解釈	カイシャク	interpretation; explanation; reading; construction

ゲ

Word	Reading	Meaning
解熱	ゲネツ	lowering a fever; alleviation of fever
和解	ワゲ	reconciliation; amicable settlement; accommodation; compromise; mediation; rapprochement; court-mediated settlement; translation of a foreign language into Japanese
解脱	ゲダツ	liberation from earthly desires and the woes of man; deliverance of one's soul; moksha; mukti; vimukti
解熱剤	ゲネツザイ	fever medicine; antipyretic; antifebrile
解毒	ゲドク	detoxification; counteracting poison; neutralizing poison

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
解く	とく	to untie; to unfasten; to unwrap; to undo; to unbind; to unpack; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to answer; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.); to clear up; to remove (suspicion); to appease; to dissolve (a contract); to cancel; to remove (a prohibition); to lift (a ban); to raise (a siege); to release (from duty); to relieve; to dismiss; to comb (out); to card; to untangle (hair)
解く	ほどく	to undo; to untie; to unfasten; to unlace; to unravel; to loosen; to unpack
解ける	とける	to be solved; to be worked out; to come loose; to come untied; to come undone; to be removed (of restrictions); to be lifted (e.g. of a ban); to be broken (of a spell, curse, etc.); to dissipate (of anger, tension, etc.); to melt away; to ease; to be allayed; to be appeased; to be resolved (of a dispute, misunderstanding, etc.); to be cleared up
解ける	ほどける	to come loose; to come untied; to come undone; to unravel; to loosen up (e.g. tension)
解折	かいせき	analysis; analytical study; parsing; parse

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