Keyword
autumn
Info
FrequencyTop 1000-1100
Type
Kyōiku (2nd grade) 
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KankenLevel 9
Heisig966
Readings
あき
(71%)
Composed of
grain plant
fire
Mnemonic

When the last of the grain plants is harvested in autumn, it's time to set fire to the fields to prepare them for the next batch of crops.

(This is something that farmers actually used to do in the past, and are still doing in certain parts of the world.)

Used in kanji (8 in total)
distress
bush clover
hoe
bullhead
floor tile
Japanese catalpa
???
wetlands
Used in vocabulary (173 in total)
autumn; fall
A common name for the area around Akihabara Station in the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo, Japan, famous for being the centre of modern Japanese popular culture and a major shopping district for video games, anime, manga, electronics and computer-related goods.
thousand years; many years
Examples (88 in total)
We have a cold autumn this year.
Fall is late this year.
She is getting married this fall.