Entry
  1. Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb

    running off in the night (to leave one's old life behind, e.g. to get away from debt); moonlight flit; skipping town overnight; upping and leaving under the cover of darkness; midnight vanishing act

    彼は借金がたまって夜逃げ同然に町を去った。
    He was deeply in debt. And he and his family skipped town.
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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

night, evening

Kun
よる
On
Strokes
8
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N4
Frequency
487 of 2500
Radical
evening
WaniKani
Level 6

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
2-2-6, 3-3-5, 3-4-4SKIP code
2j6.1The Kanji Dictionary
0024.7Four corner code
467deroo
591cUnicode hex code
1-44-75JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
298Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1129New Nelson (John Haig)
2056New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2550Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1301Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1770Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1037Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1115Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
258A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
766Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
336Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
5763Morohashi
212A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
471Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
479Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
144sakade
150Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
232henshall3
169Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
318crowley
93Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.17busy_people
406Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1046Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
ye4Pinyin reading
yaKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
6WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

escape, flee, shirk, evade, set free

Kun
に.げるに.がすのが.すのが.れる
On
トウ
Strokes
9
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N3
Frequency
931 of 2500
Radical
walk
WaniKani
Level 38

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (29)
CodeReference
3-3-6SKIP code
2q6.5The Kanji Dictionary
3230.1Four corner code
1257deroo
9003Unicode hex code
1-38-08JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4682Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6038New Nelson (John Haig)
3095New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3839Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1970Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2666Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
283Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
301Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
864A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1169Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
38845PMorohashi
1642A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1566Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1669Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
955Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1298Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
283Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
689Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
289Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
tao2Pinyin reading
doKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
38WaniKani level