経

Meaning

経 centers on a thread-like line that runs through or along something: a warp thread in weaving, a meridian of longitude, or the passage of time. The sutra sense extends this to a guiding thread of teaching, and 'expire' comes from time passing through.

• 経済けいざい
  N5

  economy; economics

• 経験けいけん
  N4

  experience

• 経営けいえい
  N3

  management; administration; operation; running (a business); conducting

• 経つたつ
  N3

  to pass (of time); to elapse

• 経きょう

  sutra; Buddhist scriptures

• 神経しんけい
  N3

  nerve

• 経過けいか
  N2

  passage (of time); elapsing; lapse

• 経由けいゆ
  N3

  going through; going via; going by way of

• 経緯けいい
  N1

  details; particulars; sequence of events; circumstances; situation; how things got this way

• 日経にっけい

  Nikkei (newspaper, share index)

• 経歴けいれき
  N1

  personal history; background; career

• 経路けいろ
  N1

  course; route; path; channel

• 経費けいひ
  N1

  expenses; expenditure; outgoings; outlays; costs

• 経理けいり
  N1

  accounting; administration (of money)

• 神経質しんけいしつ

  nervous; highly strung; sensitive

• 東経とうけい

  east longitude

• 政経せいけい

  politics and economics

• 月経げっけい

  menstruation; menstrual period

• 経度けいど
  N2

  longitude

• 経常けいじょう

  ordinary

• 経るへる
  N1

  to pass; to elapse; to go by

• 経営者けいえいしゃ

  manager; proprietor

• 経済的けいざいてき
  N1

  economic; financial

• 経常利益けいじょうりえき

  current profits; ordinary profit; income before income taxes; ordinary income; operating income

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