The kanji 毒: meaning, readings and stroke order

毒

Meaning: poison
On reading: ドク doku
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 8
Radical: 毋 mother, do not
Level: Level 5 · grade 5

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: chất độc (độc)
Japanese: からだにわるいもの。
Korean: 독
Chinese: 毒、毒药

Readings, words and example sentences

ドク doku · on reading

毒どく
poison
このきのこには 毒どくがあります。
This mushroom is poisonous.

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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.