毒 — poison, virus, venom

どく毒 poison

どく

U+6BD2 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1419 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1651 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

poison
virus
venom
germ
harm
injury
spite

Readings

On'yomi: どく doku

word

どく doku On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

毒(どく) doku poison 中(ちゅう) 毒(どく) chuudoku poisoning 気(き) の毒(どく) kinodoku pitiful 消(しょう) 毒(どく) shoudoku disinfection 有(ゆう) 毒(どく) yuudoku poisonous 毒(どく) ガス dokugasu poison gas 毒(どく) 薬(やく) dokuyaku poison 食(しょく) 中(ちゅう) 毒(どく) shokuchuudoku food poisoning

Words by frequency and grade

9 words

Each dot is a word containing 毒: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 4 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

龶 stand with line

毋 mother

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#80 毋 mother