Kanji Course
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- 96 week duration
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Section 18
別
Meaning:
In Japanese, 別 means “to break up with”.
How to read it:
| Kunyomi | わか |
| Onyomi | べつ |
How to write it:
Origin:
You can see a knife and the bone, when you break up with your girlfriend/boyfriend, it will be so painful that it feels like a knife is cutting your bone.
So it stands for “to break up with”.
Development:
Vocabulary:
| Level | Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | 別 | べつ | another |
| Basic | 別れる | わかれる | to break up |
| Basic | 特別 | とくべつ | special |
| Inter | 区別 | くべつ | distinction |
| Inter | 差別 | さべつ | discrimination |
| Inter | 個別 | こべつ | individual |
| Inter | 別々 | べつべつ | separately |
| Adv | 別荘 | べっそう | villa |
| Adv | 性別 | せいべつ | gender |
| Adv | 識別 | しきべつ | identification |
| Adv | 格別 | かくべつ | exceptional |
| Adv | 分別 | ふんべつ | classification |
| Adv | 別人 | べつじん | another person |
| Adv | 別名 | べつめい | alias |
| Adv | 判別 | はんべつ | discrimination |
| Adv | 大別する | たいべつする | to divide roughly |
| Adv | 選別 | せんべつ | sorting |
| Adv | 別居 | べっきょ | living apart |
| Adv | 別個 | べっこ | separate |
| H_Adv | 別冊 | べっさつ | separate volume |
| H_Adv | 別物 | べつもの | another thing |
| H_Adv | 別途 | べっと | separately |
| H_Adv | 別室 | べっしつ | separate room |
| S_Adv | 死別 | しべつ | bereavement |
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