# 際 — Occasion

Frequency rank 278 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 夫 (Husband), less common than 氏 (Family Name).

- On’yomi: さい
- Kun’yomi: きわ
- Radical: 阜 Mound (Kangxi 170)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX
- School grade: 5
- Strokes: 13

One night a year the festival nails its paper and scaffold onto the graveyard mound, layer over flat layer, and hangs a lantern on the boot jutting from the second shelf.

In words:

- 際 さい — on the occasion of,circumstances
- 国際 こくさい — international
- 実際 じっさい — practical,actual condition,status quo

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