Word details

更迭

Meanings, readings, and example sentences for the Japanese word 更迭.

Dictionary

Entry

更迭うてつNounIntransitiveTransitive~する VerbFreq #38520
1

change (of personnel); reshuffle (e.g. of a cabinet); shake-up; dismissal (e.g. of a minister); replacement

Examples
田中前外相の更迭に続く政治混乱がその象徴である。
The dismissal of foreign minister Tanaka is symbolic of the continuing political turmoil.

Character notes

Kanji in this Word

grow late, night watch, sit up late, of course, renew, renovate, again, more and more, further

7 strokesFrequency 861JLPT N2Grade 8

On

コウ

Kun

さらさら.にふ.けるふ.かす

transfer, alternation

7 strokesFrequency 1,907JLPT N1Grade 8

On

テツ

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