Word Meaning 維新

いしん ishin

維新 is read as いしん (ishin) and means Meiji Restoration.

Meaning

English

  1. Meiji Restoration
  2. Nippon Ishin no Kai
  3. Japan Innovation Party
  4. reformation
  5. revolution
  6. renewal

Reading

Kana

いしん

Romaji

ishin

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 27 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 4級 Rank 2612 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

維新の党

いしんのとう

Japan Innovation Party

維新の三傑

いしんのさんけつ

three great nobles of the Restoration

明治維新

めいじいしん

Meiji Restoration (1868)

昭和維新

しょうわいしん

Shōwa restoration (call for Imperial restoration by militarists in the 1930s)

日本維新の会

にっぽんいしんのかい

Nippon Ishin no Kai

維持

いじ

maintenance

維持費

いじひ

maintenance costs

興新

こうしん

Kōshin (Japanese industrial machinery designer)

革新

かくしん

reform

最新

さいしん

latest

Example Sentences

1

にほんのきんだいかはめいじいしんからはじまった。

Japan's modernization began with the Meiji Restoration.