The kanji 癖: meaning, readings and stroke order
癖
- Meaning
- habit, quirk
- On reading
- ヘキ heki
- Kun reading
- くせ kuse
- Strokes
- 18
- Radical
- 疒 sickness
- Level
- Level 8 · the last years of junior high
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- tật, thói quen (phích)
- Japanese
- くせ。
- Korean
- 버릇 (벽)
- Chinese
- 习惯、癖好
Readings, words and example sentences
ヘキ heki · on reading · less common
潔癖
fussy about cleanliness
祖母は 潔癖な 人です。
My grandma is very fussy about keeping things clean.
くせ kuse · kun reading
癖
habit (often a bad one)
つめを かむ 癖を 直します。
I am breaking my habit of biting my nails.
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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.