Keyword
good luck
Info
FrequencyTop 1400-1500
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 3
Heisig342
Readings
きつ
(51%)
きち
(40%)
きっ
(6%)
よし
(1%)
Composed of
professional
mouth
Mnemonic

A true professional sportsman will always open his mouth before a match and wish his opponent good luck.

Used in kanji (9 in total)
tied together
packed with
bellflower
be imminent
Used in vocabulary (69 in total)
good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious
Examples (7 in total)
Mr Yoshimoto taught us many trivial matters.
Four is an unlucky number in Japan.
He believes in the superstition that 13 is an unlucky number.
It is said that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day.
The good news spread through the village quickly.
I saw Yoshida for the first time in five years.
Yukichi Fukuzawa introduced Western ideas into Japan.