Word Meaning 直立

ちょくりつ chokuritsu

直立 is read as ちょくりつ (chokuritsu) and means rising perpendicularly.

Meaning

English

  1. rising perpendicularly
  2. rising straight up
  3. towering high
  4. standing upright
  5. standing straight
  6. standing erect

Reading

Kana

ちょくりつ

Romaji

chokuritsu

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 13 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 2 Kanken 9級 Rank 17961 Priority C

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

直立不動

ちょくりつふどう

standing at attention

直立猿人

ちょくりつえんじん

a pithecanthrope

立ち直る

たちなおる

to recover

立て直す

たてなおす

to put back up

立ち直り

たちなおり

recovery

W立直

だぶるりーち

declaring that one is one tile away from winning on one's first discard and before any tiles have been called or kongs declared

立直

りーち

being one step away from victory, success, failure, etc.

立直し

たてなおし

revamping

立て直る

たてなおる

to recover

陣を立て直す

じんをたてなおす

to redeploy troops

直感

ちょっかん

intuition