Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

損: damage, loss

Also: disadvantage, hurt, injure

JLPT N213 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met

扌 carries the meaning · 員 is drawn in

13 strokes

Three readings, and the words that use each

ソンson · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 損そんloss
  • 損失そんしつloss
  • 損得そんとくloss and gain
  • 損害そんがいdamage, injury, loss
  • 損傷そんしょうdamage, injury
  • 大損おおぞんheavy loss
  • 損害賠償そんがいばいしょうrestitution, compensation
  • 破損するはそんするdamage, be damaged

そこなうsokonau · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 損なうそこなうharm, damage [v.t.]
  • 見損なうみそこなうmisjudge, miss, fail to see

そこねるsokoneru · kun'yomi

  • 損ねるそこねるharm, hurt, injure [v.t.]

Also read そこなう, -そこなう, -そこねる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Imagine a hand reaching out from the left to grab, hold, or shape the world! When you see these three strokes, think of a hand in motion.”
More in the 扌 hand story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
扌

Also built on hand (扌)

All 88
員

Also built on employee (員)

Also read ソン

6 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
損 damage · 扌 + 員
vs貴 precious · 中 + 貝
損 has 扌 + 員 where 貴 has 中 + 貝.
In ChineseSimplified 损 · traditional, as in Japanese · sǔn

Japan keeps the traditional form 損; mainland China simplifies it to 损.

Simplified
损 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
損 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin sǔn 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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