駄 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning

burdensome, pack horse, horse load, send by horse, trivial, worthless

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • JHS
Other languages
  • 拼音tuo2
  • 拼音duo4
  • 한글tae
  • 한글ta
  • Hán-ViệtĐà

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
14 strokes
Radical
馬(うま)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+99C4

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰馬太

Words using this kanji

  • 駄目だめ終局時に、どちらの陣地でもない領域。 改善すべき点の指摘。 うまくいかないこと。no good, not serving its purpose, useless, broken
  • 駄菓子だがし雑穀などを原料とした安価な菓子。penny candy, cheap individually wrapped sweets
  • 駄菓子屋だがしや駄菓子を売る店。small-time candy store, penny candy store
  • (ダ) 〔古風〕、〔稀〕 馬や牛の背にのせた荷物を数える際に用いる助数詞。poor, low-grade, trivial, insignificant
  • 駄犬だけん犬種のわからない雑種の犬。mongrel, cur, mutt
  • 駄作ださく取るに足らない作品。つまらない作品。poor piece of work, rubbish, trash
  • 駄賃だちん駄馬による運送に対する運賃。転じて運賃。 簡単な用務に対して支払う金銭。reward, recompense, tip, conveyance charge
  • 駄文だぶんへたな文章。つまらない文章。 自分の書いた文章を謙遜する語。poor piece of writing, my poor writing
  • 駄弁だべん無用なおしゃべり。foolish tale, nonsense
  • 駄馬だば荷物を運搬する馬。 下等な馬。packhorse, workhorse, hack
  • 駄句だく下手な俳句。つまらない俳句。 自分がつくった俳句を謙遜した語。poor poem
  • 駄物だものつまらない物。値打ちのない物。trash, low-grade stuff
  • 駄津だつPacific needlefish (Strongylura anastomella)
  • 駄々だだwhining (to get one's way), tantrum
  • 駄獣だじゅうpack animal
  • 駄荷だに駄馬にのせた荷物。horse's load
  • 駄本だほんworthless book, meritless book
  • 駄洒落だじゃれくだらない洒落。下手な洒落。 語呂合わせや地口。feeble joke, poor joke, corny joke, bad pun
  • 駄弁るだべるto jabber, to chatter, to chat with
  • 駄法螺だぼらbig talk, tall tale

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

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Lookup codes

SKIP
1-10-4
Four Corner
7433.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
10a4.1
Heisig
2140
Nelson
5198