惡 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Origin of the character

形声。「心」+音符「亞」。「にくむ」を意味する漢語{惡}を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

bad, evil

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • アク
Kun (native)
  • わる(い)
  • あ(し)
  • にく(い)
  • ああ
  • いずくに
  • いずくんぞ
  • にく(む)
Other languages
  • 拼音e4
  • 拼音e3
  • 拼音wu4
  • 拼音wu1
  • 한글ag
  • 한글o
  • Hán-ViệtÁc
  • Hán-Việt
  • Hán-ViệtÔ

Basics

Strokes
12 strokes
Radical
心(こころ)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+60E1

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱亞心

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-8-4
Four Corner
1033.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4k7.17
Nelson
63