易

Meaning

易 centers on the idea of change and simplicity: something that shifts easily, is simple to do, or involves interpreting change through fortune-telling.

• 易いやすい
  N1

  easy

• 容易ようい
  N3

  easy; simple; plain

• 難易なんい
  N1

  (relative) difficulty

• 貿易ぼうえき
  N4

  (foreign) trade; (international) commerce; importing and exporting

• 簡易かんい
  N1

  simple; simplified

• 安易あんい
  N2

  easy; simple

• 易えき

  type of cleromancy divination (described in the Book of Changes) performed with long sticks

• 交易こうえき
  N1

  trade; commerce

• 辟易へきえき
  N1

  to be fed up (with); to be tired (of); to be bored (with); to be unable to bear

• 容易いたやすい
  N1

  easy; simple; light

• 易しいやさしい
  N5

  easy; plain; simple

• 平易へいい

  easy; simple; plain

• 易々いい

  easy; simple; plain

• 易々やすやす

  easily; readily; with ease; without trouble

• 生易しいなまやさしい

  simple; easy

• 改易かいえき

  loss of samurai status and confiscation of territory and property (Edo-period punishment)

• 易者えきしゃ

  fortuneteller; diviner

• 不易ふえき

  constancy; immutable

• 簡易保険かんいほけん

  postal life insurance

• 保護貿易ほごぼうえき

  protective trade

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