Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

厄: unlucky, misfortune

Also: bad luck, disaster

JLPT N14 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

厂 carries the meaning · 卩 is drawn in

4 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ヤクyaku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 厄介やっかい
  • 厄やくmisfortune; bad luck; evil
  • 厄年やくどしunlucky year; critical year

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Watch your step! This radical represents the sheer, unyielding wall of a mountain.”
More in the 厂 cliff story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
厂

Also built on cliff (厂)

All 17
卩

Also built on seal (卩)

All 11

Also read ヤク

8 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · è

Same form: 厄 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
厄 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
厄 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin è most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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