Keyword
habit
Info
FrequencyTop 1300-1400
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 3
Heisig1826
Readings
くせ
(45%)
へき
(40%)
ぐせ
(11%)
ぺき
(3%)
Composed of
sickness
punishment
Used in vocabulary (81 in total)
habit (usu. a bad one); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
disposition; inclination; characteristic; sexual disposition; fetish
pet saying; favorite phrase; stock phrase; manner of talking
bad habit; bad habits
to become a (bad) habit; to become a habitual practice; to become addictive; to grow on one; to become moreish
hair disarranged during sleep; bed hair; habit of moving around in one's sleep; tossing and turning in sleep; sleeping habit (esp. of a child or toddler)
fastidiousness; love of cleanliness; uprightness; integrity; scrupulousness
quirky; idiosyncratic
bad habit; vice
and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that
to blame; to find fault with
fastidiousness; fussiness about cleanliness, etc.; clean-freak
having sticky fingers; compulsive thievery; habitual movement of one's hands; marks from being handled often
philandering; itch for women
to blame; to find fault with
kinky hair; frizzy hair; unruly hair; curly hair
kinky hair; frizzy hair; unruly hair; curly hair
to be hard to deal with; to be an eccentric; to be idiosyncratic
drinking habits; drunken behavior; drunken behaviour
(having an) overactive imagination; tendency to get lost in one's imagination
to blame; to find fault with
trait; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy
vagrant habits; vagabondism; wanderlust
wasteful habits
obsession with cleanliness; fastidiousness
to blame; to find fault with
having a habit of stealing things; being light-fingered
habit of idleness (laziness); indolence
gait; one's manner of walking; leg technique; technique involving tripping the opponent
strange habit
collecting mania; mania for collecting; collectionism
short temper
habit of going out; (restless) urge to go out
(practice of) self-injury; (habit of) self-harm
propensity to steal; thieving habits; kleptomania
bad habit; peculiarity; weakness
characters that are difficult to read; poor handwriting
interest in men; itch for men
treating bed hair; hair product for treating bed hair
habit of putting things off; truancy habit
collecting mania; mania for collecting; collectionism
habit of putting things off; truancy habit
drinking habit; drinking problem; intemperance
habit of biting one's nails
warp (on the page or cover of a book, making it splay open)
habits of handwriting; handwriting idiosyncrasies; style of writing; style of painting
habit of getting fussy unless held (of a baby)
addiction
curl (on a rolled poster, etc.)
ruffian; villain; peculiar person; idiosyncratic person; tricky thing; something that is more than it seems
every person has their eccentricities
eccentricity; crankiness
idiomatic pronunciation or peculiar reading of a kanji or compound
and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that
every person has their eccentricities
some habits; some eccentricities
addiction to Western things
to be hard to deal with; to be an eccentric; to be idiosyncratic
and yet; though; when; in spite of
and yet; though; when; in spite of
junk ball (pitch); off-speed pitch; unexpected move; unorthodox measure
incontinence; promiscuity
great men have eccentricities; fine horses have quirks
crystal habit
predisposition; inclination; nature; tendency
abruptly dissolving relationships (as if pressing the reset button in a game)
mythomania; propensity to lie
tongue thrust
Examples (52 in total)
Oops, it seems my usual habit has slipped out again.
Because I wouldn't want to get a weird kink in my hair.
Is it perhaps just a habit by now?