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暇 means 'free time'

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Strokes : 13    Frequency: 1520   JLPT: N1    Usefulness: 5    Study set: 5-24    Grade: 8   Intermediate lesson: -    Beginner lesson: -   Begins 20 words   Used in 62 words   Used in 23 names   Not used as a component
Jōyō (常用)
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   カ
Kun
   ひま free time
Kun    いとま free time
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Find out which famous author called himself Godzilla's egg! See how two terms for "to give vacation time" can also mean "to fire" and "to divorce one's wife"! Learn to talk about filling free time, being unable to spare any time, killing time, not wasting a moment, and taking a paid day off. Also discover how to say "Firefighting is a feast-or-famine job" and "I was out of town on vacation."
⿰   sun; day   Ko with the striped corpse again  
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In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 暇 is used 3 times, read 2 ways.
Across all words in Japanese, 暇 is used 45 times, read 3 ways.
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noun
holiday; day off; furlough; absence (from work)
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ひま : 17 words FIND ALL
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1. spare time; free time; leisure
noun
2. time (e.g. time it takes to do something)  (this meaning is restricted to reading ひま, ヒマ)
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いとま : 4 words FIND ALL
expression
without losing time (e.g. to do); without even time for (doing something)
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An additional 霞 less common words include 暇 but the reading has not yet been categorized.
Henshall: 1050  Joy o' Kanji : 1050  Key to Kanji:

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カ   ひま free time   
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Ko with the striped corpse again
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katakana 'ko'
corpse
また again   
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
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