謁 means “audience (with royalty)”

えつ · etsu

Also: audience, audience (with king)

On'yomi (Chinese reading): エツ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 15 strokes

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Words (言) and 曷: picture words offered up to someone far above you. 謁 is being received by the great: 謁見 is a formal audience, the kind a king or the Pope grants, and 拝謁 is the humble word for being received.

Used in 謁見 (ekken, audience) and 拝謁 (haietsu, audience with royalty)

謁 means “audience (with royalty)”

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