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
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
Akita (city, prefecture)
autumn breeze; fall breeze
late autumn (fall); (arch.) ninth month of the lunar calendar
autumn moon; harvest moon
early autumn (fall); seventh month of the lunar calendar
spring and autumn; spring and fall; years; age; The Spring and Autumn Annals; The Chronicles of Lu
clear autumnal weather
autumn sky; clear blue autumnal sky
autumn day; autumn sun
Akita prefecture (Tōhoku area)
clear autumn sky
spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter; the four seasons
beginning of autumn; beginning of fall
autumn rain; fall rain
plants which flower in autumn (fall)
(waiting) impatiently; (spending) many a weary day; each moment seeming like an eternity
autumn festival; fall festival
Pacific saury (Cololabis saira); mackerel pike
clear autumn water; clear fall water
concluding festivities; concluding program; concluding programme; final day of a tournament
Akita (breed of dog)
autumn, season of good appetite
to become autumnal
common cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus)
to blow (of autumn wind); to fall out of love
to cast amorous glances at a man (of a woman); to make eyes at; to give (someone) the eye; to make advances
amorous glance; wink
autumnal tints; fall tints
clear fall (weather); clear autumn
fall season; autumn season
autumn scenery; fall scenery
first day of autumn (approx. August 8); first day of fall
15th day of the 8th lunar month
autumn of last year; fall of last year
clear autumnal weather
autumn, the harvest season
a woman is as fickle as autumn weather
autumn, the best season for doing sports
autumnal equinox; autumn equinox; fall equinox
autumn, the best season for reading
this autumn; this fall; autumn of this year
15th day of the 8th lunar month; eighth month of the lunar calendar
Autumnal Equinox Day (national holiday; September 22, 23 or 24)
Autumn Tournament (held in Tokyo in September)
autumn, the best season for enjoying art
Spring and Autumn period (of Chinese history, approx. 770-403 BCE)
autumn frost; fall frost
the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history)
autumn period; autumn term (e.g. school); fall period; fall term
autumn day; fall day; autumn; fall
clear autumn day; clear fall day
hardy begonia (Begonia grandis)
sound of the autumn wind; sound of the fall wind
autumn festival; fall festival
Yamato; (ancient) Japan
cool autumn weather; cool fall weather
autumn vegetables; fall vegetables
wheat harvest
three autumn months; three fall months; three years
autumn clouds; white, wispy clouds in a clear autumn sky
crisis; critical moment; critical time
seven autumnal flowers (bush clover, Chinese silvergrass, kudzu, fringed pink, golden lace, thoroughwort, and balloon flower)
autumn sowing; fall sowing
autumn eggplant; eggplant picked eaten in the autumn
autumn air; fall air
to blow (of autumn wind); to fall out of love
cool autumn; cool fall
autumn comes with harvest time and clear weather; (lit.) autumn with the sky clear and blue, and horses growing stout
autumn weather is as fickle as a man's heart
plowing right after the autumn harvest
merganser (any duck of genus Mergus)
starting the new school year from autumn (instead of spring); autumnal admission; fall matriculation
Ministry of Justice (Zhou-dynasty China)
the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history)
deep autumn (when the autumn has reached its climax)
autumn rain front; fall rain front
deep autumn (when the autumn has reached its climax)
the autumn sun sets as quickly as a bucket dropping into a well
autumn dusk; the end of autumn
autumn at harvest time; fall at harvest time
Akihabara style; nerdy
long autumn rains; stationary autumn front
to be young; to be young and have a promising future
critical argument laden with value judgment, where an indirect cause, often trivial, is made to appear as leading to the effect
autumn silkworms; fall silkworms
late autumn (fall); ninth month of the lunar calendar
lingering heat (in autumn)
autumn sowing; fall sowing
time; hour; moment
imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the autumnal equinox
next autumn; next fall
autumnal chill; touch of cold in the air
coolness of autumn; cool autumn wind; eighth lunar month
mid-autumn festival (in China and Vietnam)
woman who has lost a man's affection or interest (as does a fan when summer turns to autumn)
don't feed autumn eggplant to your wife (because they're too delicious, because they'll give her the chills, or because their lack of seeds will reduce her fertility)
end of autumn; ninth month of the lunar calendar
forlorn and helpless; lonely and desolate
autumn where the foliage is as beautiful as brocade; autumn with beautiful leaves
autumn crops; fall crops
lonely feeling of fall; autumnal melancholy; fall melancholy
Akizuki Rebellion (1876)
cool, late summer night
refreshing and pleasant autumn
increased rice prices in autumn due to a poor harvest; good autumn rice harvest
horse mackerel caught in autumn
autumn equinoctal point
signs of autumn; appearance of autumn
cicadas that sing when autumn comes
cicadas that sing when autumn comes; cicadas that sing even in autumn
bush clover (that blossoms in the autumn)
wheat harvest
the pleasantness of autumn
spring flowers and the autumn moon; beauty of nature as it changes from season to season
Japanese anemone; Anemone hupehensis var. japonica
Japanese butterbur (Petasites japonicus subsp. giganteus)
autumn when the moon is beautiful
autumn, season of the tastes
Akita ranga; short-lived school of Western-style painting that originated in the Akita feudal domain in the mid Edo period
(waiting) impatiently; (spending) many a weary day; each moment seeming like an eternity
var. of red dragonfly (Sympetrum frequens)
autumn, the harvest season
beginning of autumn; seventh month of the lunar calendar
dragonfly
long autumn rains; stationary autumn front
European goldenrod (Solidago virgaurea); woundwort
poor autumn rice harvest; depressed rice prices in autumn due to a good harvest; deterioration of sake quality through summer aging
salmon (esp. salmon swimming upstream in the autumn); salted salmon
common merganser
first day (beginning) of autumn; first day of fall
late in autumn; late in fall
red-breasted merganser
giving an amorous sidelong look; casting an amorous glance (at); playing up to someone behind the scenes
casting a coquettish (an amorous) glance (at a man)
people may bring about their demise for love; it is easy to have one's weak points taken advantage of; (lit.) in autumn (during mating season), deer come forth when they hear (a hunter's) whistle
Indian lettuce (Lactuca indica)
Indian lettuce (Lactuca indica)
end of autumn (fall)
autumn rain front; fall rain front
autumn olive (Elaeagnus umbellata); Japanese silverberry; oleaster
eighth lunar month
autumn lined kimono
fan in autumn (esp. one that is no longer used); (fig.) outdated item that has fallen into disuse; (fig.) woman who has lost a man's affection or interest
bamboo screen still in place in autumn
pleasantly cool (as in the arrival of autumn)
autumn snow; fall snow
bonito caught in autumn
autumn saba; mackerel caught in autumn
fan that is no longer needed in autumn
autumn evening
sake that is brewed in winter, pasteurized, aged over the summer, and distributed in autumn after a second pasteurization; end of harvest
sake that is brewed in winter, pasteurized, aged over the summer, and distributed in autumn after a second pasteurization; end of harvest
end of the rice harvest; celebration for the end of the rice harvest; increased rice prices in autumn due to a poor harvest
autumn with plentiful harvests
Chuseok (15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar); Korean Thanksgiving
a straw will show which way the wind blows; a falling leaf shows that autumn has come
Chinese elm (Ulmus parvifolia)
Japanese scallop (Patinopecten yessoensis)
Thalictrum minus var. hypoleucum (variety of lesser meadow rue)
black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus)
Examples (88 in total)
We have a cold autumn this year.
Fall is late this year.
She is getting married this fall.