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邪: wicked, injustice

Also: wrong

JLPT N18 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

⻏ carries the meaning · 牙 gives the sound

8 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ジャja · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 邪心じゃしんmalice, evil intentions
  • 邪道なじゃどうなheresy, the course of evil
  • 邪魔なじゃまなobstructive, burdensome
  • 邪悪なじゃあくなwicked, evil
  • 無邪気なむじゃきなinnocent, simple
  • 邪魔するじゃまするget in the way, be a nuisance

Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.

  • 風邪かぜa cold (as in an illness)

Also read よこしま, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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“Welcome to the village! This "big town" radical brings the feeling of community, borders, and organized civilization to a kanji.”
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繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
牙

Also built on tusk (牙)

The 牙 family reads ガ (ga); 邪 is read ジャ.

⻏

Also built on village (⻏)

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Also read ジャ

3 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
邪 wicked · ⻏
vs芽 bud · 艹
邪 has ⻏ where 芽 has 艹.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xié

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

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

Pinyin xié 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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