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賎

賎 — readings, stroke count and radical

  • Non-Jōyō kanji
  • 13 strokes

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. いやしい。身分、地位、価値が低い。しがない。くだらない。
  2. いやしめる。軽んじる。くだらないと見なす。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

「賤」の略体。「賤」については賤#字源の項目を参照。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

despise, low-life, poverty

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • セン
  • ゼン
Kun (native)
  • いや(しい)
  • いや(しむ)
  • いや(しめる)
  • しず
  • やす(い)
Other languages
  • 拼音jian4
  • 한글cheon
  • Hán-ViệtTiện

Basics

Strokes
13 strokes
Radical
貝(かい)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+8CCE

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰貝㦮

Words using this kanji

  • 賎業せんぎょうlow or mean occupation
  • 賎業婦せんぎょうふprostitute

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(5 results)

Similar-looking kanji

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-7-6
Four Corner
6385.3
Spahn–Hadamitzky
7b8.3
Heisig
2765
Nelson
4505