Godan verb with 'u' ending, Transitive verb
to explain away (a mistake, failure, etc.); to make excuses for; to gloss over; to talk one's way out of
Also written 言いつくろう【いいつくろう】、言繕う【いいつくろう】
Characters in this word
2言
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say, word
- Kun
- い.うこと
- On
- ゲンゴン
- Strokes
- 7
- Taught
- Grade 2
- JLPT
- N4
- Frequency
- 83 of 2500
- Radical
- 言 speech
- WaniKani
- Level 5
Built from
Used in names as
とき
Dictionary and index codes (34)
| Code | Reference |
|---|---|
| 2-1-6 | SKIP code |
| 7a0.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 0060.1 | Four corner code |
| 3077 | deroo |
| 8a00 | Unicode hex code |
| 1-24-32 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 4309 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 5552 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1941 | New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2440 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1233 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1698 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 335 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 357 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 279 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 439 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 43 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 35205 | Morohashi |
| 274 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 66 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 66 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 392 | sakade |
| 85 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 118 | henshall3 |
| 142 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 44 | crowley |
| 203 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 2.8 | busy_people |
| 1653 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 341 | Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette) |
| yan2 | Pinyin reading |
| eon | Korean reading |
| n4 | JLPT level (KANJIDIC2) |
| 5 | WaniKani level |
繕
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
Dictionary and index codes (28)
| Code | Reference |
|---|---|
| 1-6-12 | SKIP code |
| 6a12.2 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2896.1 | Four corner code |
| 2777 | deroo |
| 7e55 | Unicode hex code |
| 1-33-22 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 3612 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 4594 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1423 | New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1802 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 959 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1296 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 1335 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1433 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1977 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1550 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 27893 | Morohashi |
| 1504 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1140 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1192 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1650 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1902 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 1572 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1562 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 1347 | Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette) |
| shan4 | Pinyin reading |
| seon | Korean reading |
| n1 | JLPT level (KANJIDIC2) |