Kanji 七 Words: Meanings and Readings

柒

しち

seven

七〇

しちじゅう

seventy

棚幡

たなばた

Star Festival (held in July or August)

７月

しちがつ

July

七日

なぬか

7th day of the month

七々日

しちしちにち

49th day after death

一七日

じゅうしちにち

17 days

二七日

にじゅうしちにち

27 days

一七

じゅうしち

17

二七日

ふたなぬか

second week's memorial services

７つ

ななつ

four o'clock (old time system)

七宝

しちほう

cloisonne ware

七色

しちしょく

blend of seven spices (cayenne, sesame, Japanese pepper, citrus peel, etc.)

七面鳥

しちめんちょう

turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)

七時

しちじ

seven o'clock

七福神

しちふくじん

Seven Gods of Fortune

七五三

しちごさん

festival (shrine visit) by children aged 7, 5 and 3

七回忌

しちかいき

sixth anniversary of a death

七種

ななくさ

the seven spring flowers

七不思議

ななふしぎ

seven wonders (of a particular area)

七三

しちさん

7 or 3 ratio

アメリカ七日鮫

アメリカなぬかざめ

swellshark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum, species of catshark in the Eastern Pacific)

お七夜

おしちや

name-giving ceremony

しち面倒

しちめんどう

very troublesome

しち面倒くさい

しちめんどうくさい

extremely bothersome

しめ飾り

しめかざり

decorating shrines and gates with shimenawa ropes for the New Year

しめ縄

しめなわ

rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil

セシウム百三十七

セシウムひゃくさんじゅうしち

cesium-137

なくて七癖

なくてななくせ

every person has their eccentricities

なくて七癖あって四十八癖

なくてななくせあってしじゅうはっくせ

every person has their eccentricities

一七日

いちしちにち

seven days

過去七仏

かこしちぶつ

the seven previous incarnations of Buddha

憲法十七条

けんぽうじゅうしちじょう

Seventeen-Article Constitution (of Asuka-period Japan)

五畿七道

ごきしちどう

the five home provinces and seven districts of ancient Japan

五七

ごしち

35th day after a person's death

五七の桐

ごしちのきり

paulownia crest (three leaves with seven blossoms on the center lead and five blossoms on each side leaf)

五七五

ごしちご

five-seven-five syllable verse (haiku, senryu, etc.)

五七調

ごしちちょう

five and seven-syllable meter

五七日

ごしちにち

35th day after a person's death

後七日

ごしちにち

January 8-14

後七日の御修法

ごしちにちのみしほ

annual Shingon prayer ritual (January 8-14)

高嶺七竃

たかねななかまど

Siberian mountain ash (Sorbus sambucifolia)

三三七拍子

さんさんななびょうし

three-three-seven rhythmic clapping pattern

三七人参

さんしちにんじん

notoginseng (Panax pseudoginseng)

三七日

さんしちにち

21st day after death

四七日

よなのか

28th day after death

四七抜き

よなぬき

pentatonic scale

四十七士

しじゅうしちし

The 47 Ronin

七

チー

seven

七々子

ななこ

decorating a metal surface with small dots resembling fish eggs

七〇〇

しちひゃく

700

七〇〇〇

しちせん

7000

七イマーム派

しちイマームは

Sevener Shiism

七か年

ななかねん

septennial

七つの海

ななつのうみ

the seven seas

七つの罪源

ななつのざいげん

the Seven Deadly Sins

七つの星

ななつのほし

Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn

七つの大罪

ななつのたいざい

the Seven Deadly Sins

七つ屋

ななつや

pawnshop

七つ時

ななつどき

(approx.) four o'clock (am or pm, old time system)

七つ星

ななつぼし

family crest representing the seven luminaries (with one central circle surrounded by six other circles)

七の和音

しちのわおん

seventh chord

七音音階

しちおんおんかい

heptatonic scale

七化け

ななばけ

dance in which the performer quickly changes his clothes seven times

七花八裂

しちかはちれつ

being torn to pieces

七角形

しちかくけい

heptagon

七割

ななわり

seventy percent

七竃

ななかまど

Japanese rowan (Sorbus commixta)

七観音

しちかんのん

the seven Avalokitesvaras of Kyoto

七曲がり

ななまがり

tortuous or spiral (path)

七穴

しちけつ

the seven orifices of the head (eyes, nostrils, ear canals, mouth)

七月王政

しちがつおうせい

(French) July Monarchy

七月革命

しちがつかくめい

July Revolution (France, 1830)

七賢

しちけん

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove

七賢人

しちけんじん

the Seven Wise Men (of Greece)

七弦琴

しちげんきん

qin (7-stringed Chinese zither)

七言

しちごん

Chinese poem with seven characters per line

七言絶句

しちごんぜっく

poem of four lines, each of seven (Chinese) characters

七言律詩

しちごんりっし

poem of eight lines, each of seven (Chinese) characters

七五三

しめ

rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil

七五調

しちごちょう

seven-and-five-syllable meter

七光

ななひかり

benefiting from the influence of a master or parent

七公三民

しちこうさんみん

land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent

七三一部隊

ななさんいちぶたい

Unit 731 (biological warfare unit of the Japanese Imperial Army)

七三分け

しちさんわけ

side parting

七事

しちじ

seven tea ceremony procedures of the Senke school

七事式

しちじしき

seven tea ceremony procedures of the Senke school

七種がゆ

ななくさがゆ

rice gruel traditionally eaten on the 7th day of the new year containing the seven plants of spring

七種の節句

ななくさのせっく

Feast of the Seven Herbs of Health (one of the five seasonal festivals; celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar)

七種競技

ななしゅきょうぎ

heptathlon

七衆

しちしゅ

seven orders of Buddhist disciples (monks, nuns, probationary nuns, male novices, female novices, male lay devotees, female lay devotees)

七週の祭

ななまわりのいわい

the Feast of Weeks

七週の祭り

ななしゅうのまつり

the Feast of Weeks

七十古希

しちじゅうこき

men seldom live to be seventy

七十人訳聖書

しちじゅうにんやくせいしょ

Septuagint

七十代

ななじゅうだい

(one's) 70s

七十二候

しちじゅうにこう

the 72 microseasons of the year based on the 24 solar seasons further divided into 3

七十路

ななそじ

age seventy

七重

ななえ

sevenfold

七重のひざを八重に折る

ななえのひざをやえにおる

to humbly implore