The kanji 害: meaning, readings and stroke order
害
- Meaning
- harm
- On reading
- ガイ gai
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 宀 roof
- Level
- Level 4 · grade 4
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- tác hại (hại)
- Japanese
- わるい ことを する。そこなう。
- Korean
- 해, 해롭다 (해)
- Chinese
- 害处、伤害
Readings, words and example sentences
ガイ gai · on reading
害虫
harmful bug, pest
畑の 害虫を 調べます。
I look into the pests in the field.
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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.