式

Meanings

1. way; style; fashion; method; system; form; type
2. ceremony; rite; ritual; celebration
3. wedding (ceremony)
4. equation; formula; expression
5. enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryō legal codes)

Part of speech: noun, noun (suffix)

Kanji

• 式

  Meanings

  style, ceremony, rite, function

  On reading

  シキ

  Strokes

  6

Example sentences

• 彼は事故でその式に出席できなかった。

  An accident prohibited his attending the ceremony.

  Tatoeba #105373 · CC BY 2.0 FR

• 社長の挨拶が長くて式の後半が押せ押せになってしまった。

  The company president's welcome was so long that we were squeezed for time in the second half of the ceremony.

  Tatoeba #76046 · CC BY 2.0 FR

• 式に余分の変数を加えたことによって、この実験結果は不明瞭なものになっている。

  The result of this experiment is obscured by the extra variables added in the formula.

  Tatoeba #149638 · CC BY 2.0 FR