The kanji 凄: meaning, readings and stroke order
凄
- Meaning
- intense, dreadful
- On reading
- セイ sei
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 冫 ice
- Level
- Level 10 · the last years of senior high
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- ghê gớm, thê thảm (thê)
- Japanese
- すさまじい。ぞっと するほど。
- Korean
- 굉장하다, 처참하다 (처)
- Chinese
- 厉害、凄惨
Readings, words and example sentences
セイ sei · on reading · less common
凄惨
gruesome, horrible
凄惨な 場面は うつしません。
They do not show gruesome scenes.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.