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賤

賤 — readings, stroke count and radical

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。
  2. いやしめる。軽んじる。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「貝」+音符「戔」。「いやしい」を意味する漢語｛賤｝を表す字。

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)
  • しず
  • やす(い)
Other languages
  • 拼音jian4
  • 한글cheon
  • Hán-ViệtTiện

Basics

Strokes
15 strokes
Radical
貝(かい)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+8CE4

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰貝戔

Words using this kanji

  • 賤しず(しず) 身分や地位が低いこと。又、身分や地位が低い者。lowly person, lowliness, I
  • 賤民せんみん身分制度において賤しい身分として区別された民。lowly people (esp. as a caste), humble people
  • 賤称せんしょう相手を身分的に蔑んで呼ぶ名称。depreciatory name
  • 賤鳥しずとりlesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
  • 賤女せんじょlowly woman
  • 賤吏せんりlow-ranking official
  • 賤の女しずのめwoman of lowly birth

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(16 results)

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-7-8
Four Corner
6385.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
7b8.3
Nelson
4515