# 訳 — Translation

Frequency rank 603 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Mid-frequency: not on every page, but regular in books and magazines.

More common than 服 (Clothes), less common than 端 (Edge).

- On’yomi: やく
- Kun’yomi: わけ
- Radical: 言 Speech (Kangxi 149)
- Frequency path: Level V of XX

On the left you say something, and on the right is a geoduck -- saying what a geoduck means requires translation from sea-creature to human language.

In words:

- 訳 わけ — meaning,reason
- 訳す やくす — to translate
- 翻訳 ほんやく — translation

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