The kanji 駄: meaning, readings and stroke order

駄

Meaning: useless, low-grade
On reading: ダ da
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 14
Radical: 馬 horse
Level: Level 9 · senior high school

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: vô ích, kém giá trị (đà)
Japanese: やくにたたない。ねうちがひくい。
Korean: 쓸모없다, 하찮다 (태)
Chinese: 无用、低劣 (驮)

Readings, words and example sentences

ダ da · on reading · less common

無む駄だ
waste, no use
紙を 無む駄だにしません。
I don't waste paper.

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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.