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厳しい is an exact match with one form of the following word:
厳しい
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Readings : きびしい    いかめしい   
厳しい can be read in 2 ways: きびしい (almost always used), いかめしい (rare).
1. severe; strict; rigid; unsparing; relentless
2. stern; austere; grave; solemn; majestic
3. intense (cold); harsh
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Usefulness and usage:
Kanshudo usefulness level: 1 (among the 500 most useful words in Japanese)
• Kanshudo usefulness level is based on a usefulness score of 184,670 which gives a rank of 208
厳しい is the most useful form. 4 additional forms are shown below.
This word is a member of our collection of the 10,000 most useful words in Japanese:
• This form is almost always used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 9,000 (about 78,700,000 results)
• This form appears in Wikipedia's list of JLPT N4 vocabulary (see JLPT collections)
• iknow! Core 6000 rank: 531 (see iKnow! collections)
• Wikipedia most common 20000 words rank: 2718
• One of the 1240 words included in the Genki textbooks
• This form appears in the 1998 'Ichimango goi bunruishuu' frequent word list by Senmon Kyouiku
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 18 in the EDICT word frequency file (bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
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Example sentences:
せんせい
先生
こわ
くて
きび
しくて
いじわる
意地悪
です
My teacher is scary, strict, and mean.
せんせい
先生
いじわる
意地悪
こわ
くて
きび
しいい
です
My teacher is mean, scary, and strict.
わたし
じぶん
自分
いちばん
一番
きび
しい
です
I’m hardest on myself.
きびしい
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Usefulness and usage:
• This form is rarely used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 100,000 (about 1,870,000 results)
• This form appears in the 1998 'Ichimango goi bunruishuu' frequent word list by Senmon Kyouiku
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 18 in the EDICT word frequency file (bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
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Reading : きびしい   
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• This form is rarely used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 176,000 (about 414,000 results)
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厳めしい
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Reading : いかめしい   
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• This form is rarely used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 185,000 (about 370,000 results)
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いかめしい
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• Google Japan frequency rank: 229,000 (about 82,500 results)
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ゲン   ゴン   きびしい severe   おごそ dignified, stately   
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カン    daring   
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ぼく strike   
カ   ゲ   した below, under   くだ to descend   さげる to lower, to reduce   
ジ   みみ ear   
small
cliff
コク    cruel   
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コク   つげる to announce   
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whereupon by the ground
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katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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sake flask   とり sign of the bird   
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西
セイ   サイ   にし west   
イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
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