Entry
  1. Noun

    clothes worn while one's other clothes are in the wash

  2. cleaning or planing wooden furniture to revive it

  3. reversing the book value of an asset to the acquisition cost at the beginning of the next accounting period

Also written 洗替【あらいがえ】

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Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

wash, inquire into, probe

Kun
あら.う
On
セン
Strokes
9
Taught
Grade 6
JLPT
N3
Frequency
1168 of 2500
Radical
water
WaniKani
Level 18

Built from

Used in names as

あらいらい

Dictionary and index codes (32)
CodeReference
1-3-6SKIP code
3a6.12The Kanji Dictionary
3411.1Four corner code
357deroo
6d17Unicode hex code
1-32-86JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2551Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3131New Nelson (John Haig)
388New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
465Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
288Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
350Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
249Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
264Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
626A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
817Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
925Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
17379Morohashi
916A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
692Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
705Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
210Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
927henshall3
888Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
198Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.17busy_people
1189Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
255Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
xi3Pinyin reading
se, seonKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
18WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

exchange, spare, substitute, per-

Kun
か.えるか.え-か.わる
On
タイ
Strokes
12
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N2
Frequency
979 of 2500
Radical
say
WaniKani
Level 25

Built from

Used in names as

かえ

Dictionary and index codes (29)
CodeReference
2-8-4SKIP code
4c8.12The Kanji Dictionary
5560.3Four corner code
1478deroo
66ffUnicode hex code
1-34-56JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2140Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2486New Nelson (John Haig)
2783New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3457Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1780Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2424Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
842Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
905Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
849A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1398Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
14300Morohashi
1548A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
744Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
757Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
611Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1547Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
375Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1001Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
850Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
ti4Pinyin reading
cheKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
25WaniKani level