厄
厄 — Unlucky
unlucky, misfortune, bad luck, disaster
On’yomiヤク (yaku)
Kun’yomi—
Stroke order (4 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 厄
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 厄介 | やっかい yakkai | trouble; burden; nuisance |
| 厄 | やく yaku | misfortune; bad luck; evil |
| 厄年 | やくどし yakudoshi | unlucky year; critical year; year (esp. age 25 and 42 for men, 19 and 33 for women) that is considered unlucky (orig. in Onmyōdō) |
Study notes
厄 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 4 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #2123 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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