Japanese symbol for “throwback”
隔世遺伝
かくせいいでん
Romaji: kakuseiiden
atavism; throwback; reappearance of an earlier characteristic
In Japanese, throwback is 隔世遺伝, read かくせいいでん (kakuseiiden).
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Meanings
- n atavism; throwback; reappearance of an earlier characteristic
- n reappearance; atavism (genet)
Kanji and stroke order
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 間隔 | かんかく kankaku | space; interval |
| 隔離 | かくり kakuri | isolation; segregation; separation |
| 遠隔 | えんかく enkaku | distant; remote; isolated |
| 隔てる | へだてる hedateru | to separate (by distance, time, etc.); to isolate; to partition |
| 隔て | へだて hedate | partition; division; barrier |
| 隔たり | へだたり hedatari | distance; difference; gap |
| 世界 | せかい sekai | the world; society; the universe |
| 世代 | せだい sedai | generation |
| 遺産 | いさん isan | inheritance; bequest; legacy |
| 伝統 | でんとう dentou | tradition; convention |
See also: Chinese symbol for “throwback”.
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.