Keyword
chronicle
Info
FrequencyTop 1000-1100
Type
Kyōiku (5th grade) 
?
Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel 6
Heisig402
Old form歷
Readings
れき
(99%)
Composed of
cliff
a bunch of trees
stop
Mnemonic

"He tried to get away from the serial killer chasing after him. Unfortunately he had to stop as he ran into a bunch of trees blocking his path. He was at the bottom of a cliff with nowhere else to go. And then the killer got to him. The End." is how the chronicle of his life ends.

Used in vocabulary (161 in total)
successive generations; successive emperors
historical; traditional; historic
personal history; background; career
experience; history; record; career
historic; historical
personal history; background; log; record; hysteresis
veteran (e.g. soldier); battle-hardened; seasoned; (of) long military service
evident; plain; distinct; clear
dark history; dark past; something one wants to forget or pretend never happened
academic background; academic credentials; academic record
personal history document; curriculum vitae; resume
to go down in history; to be recorded in the history books
successive jobs; consecutive jobs
(study of) history
history; career
round of calls; tour of visitation
travels; pilgrimage; itinerancy; (accumulated) experiences; (personal) history
dignitaries; very important persons; luminaries; big shots; VIPs
accepted; fully-fledged; clear; respectable
incoming call history; log of incoming calls
military service; combat experience
historical awareness; understanding of history
personal history
travel history; record of travel; experience of travel
work experience; work history
notables; dignitaries; illustrious families; clear; plain; obvious
medical history; case history; clinical history
high academic achievement; advanced academic training; higher education
historical viewpoint
historical records; historical materials
history of having stayed somewhere; travel history
to carve out a history; to make history; to have a history
brief personal record; short curriculum vitae; short CV
(one's) military service record
one's history as a performer
criminal record
historical philosophy
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
historical context; historical background
everyone has a past; every person has their own history
historical archive; library of historical records
history of one's love affairs
misrepresentation (falsification) of one's past record (personal history)
one's history of love affairs with women
case history; medical history; anamnesis
academic meritocracy; education-conscious society; society that places (excessive) emphasis on academic records
young woman strongly interested in pre-Edo history; young woman making use of speech and mannerisms of pre-industrial Japan; female history buff
itinerancy; tour; trip
page in the history books; historical (event); old news
incoming call history; log of incoming calls
geography and history
low-level education; inferior education
origin and history; particulars
medical examination history
historical drama
criminal record
dignitaries; very important persons; luminaries; big shots; VIPs
a route or passage
history painting; painting of a historical, mythological or legendary event or figure
history of a company; one's career with a company; length of service in a company
page in the history books; historical (event); old news
without a history; historyless; unhistoried; unstoried
change log; revision history
historical times; historical period
calendar year; civil year; time; year after year
false statement (misrepresentation) of one's academic career
successive generations; successive emperors
electricity; electric guitar
variety of kabuki, based on historical events
historical map; atlas
history of present illness
change log; record of updates; update history
historical school (of economics)
order history; purchase history
medication history
historic district; historic center of a town
historical kana orthography (used before 1946 reform); old kana orthography
increase in the level of academic achievement; popularisation of higher education
pilgrim; nomad; itinerant
chronological age
career of a baseball player
asphalt; bitumen
history of (automobile) accidents
successive reigns; successive emperors; successive dynasties
The Chronicles (books of the Bible)
history of a company; business history
highly educated person; academic; scholar
without a history; historyless; unhistoried; unstoried
(successive lords) using the same retainers
historical geography
Association of Historical Geographers in Japan; AHGJ
career as a government official; career as a public servant
expressing one's opinion; speaking one's mind; making known; revealing
over-belief in (the importance of) academic credentials; academic credentialism
dignitaries; very important persons; luminaries; big shots; VIPs
call log; call history
historical data
overstressing academic background
origin and history; particulars
looking around
attending a highly-ranked graduate school to boost one's credentials; (lit.) academic background laundering
someone with inferior education
dignitaries; very important persons; luminaries; big shots; VIPs
notables; dignitaries; illustrious families; clear; plain; obvious
electricity; electric guitar
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
case history; medical history; anamnesis
historical kana orthography (used before 1946 reform); old kana orthography
chronicles; annals
the passing of time
one's teaching experience; one's career (experience) as a teacher
Chronicles I (book of the Bible)
Chronicles II (book of the Bible)
revisionist (person who takes a revisionist view of history)
over-qualified person; over-educated person (unable to find a job); (lit.) educational refugee
official history (e.g. a state-sanctioned account of history subject to revision when the government changes)
party history (political); one's history as a party member
etymology of a word; history of a word
one's business career; one's professional experience
Black History Month; African-American History Month
distortion of history; historical negationism; historical denialism
historical value; historic value
medication history management
history of repairs and part replacements to a car
Examples (158 in total)
It is also a history of battle.
Please remember the history of Japan.
Is history really that important?