The kanji 鈍: meaning, readings and stroke order
鈍
- Meaning
- dull, slow
- On reading
- ドン don
- Kun reading
- にぶ(い) nibui、にぶ(る) niburu
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 金 metal, gold
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- cùn, chậm (độn)
- Japanese
- にぶい。よく きれない。
- Korean
- 무디다, 둔하다 (둔)
- Chinese
- 钝、迟钝 (钝)
Readings, words and example sentences
ドン don · on reading · less common
鈍感
slow to notice, insensitive
さむさに 鈍感な 人です。
He hardly feels the cold.
にぶ(い) nibui · kun reading
鈍い
dull, blunt
この 包丁は 鈍いです。
This kitchen knife is dull.
にぶ(る) niburu · kun reading · less common
鈍る
to get rusty, to grow weaker
練習を 休むと うでが 鈍ります。
If you skip practice, your skills get rusty.
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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.