The kanji 苛: meaning, readings and stroke order
苛
- Meaning
- harsh, bully
- On reading
- カ ka
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 艸 grass
- Level
- Level 10 · the last years of senior high
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- hà khắc, bắt nạt (hà)
- Japanese
- きびしい。いじめる。
- Korean
- 가혹하다, 괴롭히다 (가)
- Chinese
- 苛刻、欺负
Readings, words and example sentences
カ ka · on reading · less common
苛酷
harsh, severe
苛酷な 環境に たえます。
They put up with a harsh environment.
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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.