厄
Stroke order
Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Meaning
unlucky, misfortune, bad luck, disaster
English glosses from KANJIDIC2.
Readings
- On (Sino-Japanese)
- ヤクJHS
- Other languages
- 拼音e4
- 한글aeg
- Hán-ViệtÁch
- Hán-ViệtNgỏa
Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.
Basics
- Strokes
- 4 strokes
- Radical
- 厂(がんだれ)
- JIS level
- Level 1
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Unicode
U+5384
Components
Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.
Composition (IDS): enclosure ⿸厂㔾
Words using this kanji
- 厄介やっかい手間のかかる様子。trouble, burden, nuisance, bother
- 厄年やくどし災難に遭いやすいとされ、何事にもつつしむべきとされる年齢。unlucky year, critical year, bad year, annus horribilis
- 厄やく（ヤク）特定の年齢でふりかかるとされる災厄。misfortune, bad luck, evil, disaster
- 厄瓜多エクアドルEcuador
- 厄災やくさいcalamity, disaster, accident
- 厄前やくまえthe year before the unlucky year
- 厄難やくなん災厄。災難。災い。calamity, evil, misfortune
- 厄日やくびunlucky day, bad day, evil day, ill-omened day
- 厄運やくうんbad luck, misfortune
- 厄介事やっかいごとtroublesome matter, burden, difficult task, chore
- 厄介者やっかいもの世話がかかる者。周囲の人に迷惑をかける者。 食客。居候。burden, nuisance, bother, troublemaker
- 厄介物やっかいものnuisance, encumbrance
- 厄負けやくまけvictimized by the unlucky year, victimised by the unlucky year
- 厄払いやくばらいexorcism, ceremonial cleansing from evil influence, exorcism performed door to door, in exchange for beans and money (on the night of New Year's Eve or Setsubun)
- 厄除けやくよけ災難を払い除けること。また、その方法。warding off disaster, protecting against misfortune
- 厄ネタやくネタsource of trouble
- 厄介払いやっかいばらい厄介な人や物事を追い払う。driving off a troublesome person, getting rid of a nuisance
- 厄落としやくおとしescape from evil, exorcism
- 厄を落とすやくをおとすto exorcise, to escape evil
- 厄介なことにやっかいなことにthe trouble is ..., to make matters worse, troublingly
Words starting with this kanji, most common first.
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Lookup codes
- SKIP
3-2-2- Four Corner
7121.2- Spahn–Hadamitzky
2p2.3- Heisig
- 1519
- Nelson
- 816