The kanji 凶: meaning, readings and stroke order
凶
- Meaning
- bad luck, evil
- On reading
- キョウ kyou
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 凵 container, open mouth
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- xui xẻo, hung dữ (hung)
- Japanese
- えんぎが わるい。わるい。
- Korean
- 흉하다, 나쁘다 (흉)
- Chinese
- 凶、不吉利
Readings, words and example sentences
キョウ kyou · on reading · less common
凶作
bad harvest
冷夏で 凶作に なりました。
The cold summer brought a bad harvest.
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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.