The kanji 厄: meaning, readings and stroke order

厄

Meaning: misfortune, bad luck
On reading: ヤク yaku
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 4
Radical: 厂 cliff
Level: Level 9 · senior high school

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: tai ách, xui xẻo (ách)
Japanese: わざわい。わるいめぐりあわせ。
Korean: 재앙, 액운 (액)
Chinese: 灾难、厄运

Readings, words and example sentences

ヤク yaku · on reading · less common

厄やく介かい
troublesome, hard to deal with
厄やく介かいな問題が起きました。
A troublesome problem came up.

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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.