NichiDict

りつ
[ritsu]

Meanings

1.Noun

law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation

2.Noun

Buddhismvinaya (rules for the monastic community)

3.Noun

Ritsu (school of Buddhism)

4.Noun

lüshi (style of Chinese poem)

5.Noun

(musical) pitch

6.Noun

six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale

7.Noun

Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale, similar to Dorian mode (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)

8.NounSuffixCounter

step (in traditional Eastern music, corresponding to a Western semitone)