凶 — villain, evil, bad luck

きょう凶 villain

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 4 strokes

U+51F6 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1673 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1603 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

villain
evil
bad luck
disaster

word

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

凶(きょう) kyou misfortune 凶(きょう) 悪(あく) kyouaku atrocious

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

乂 govern

凵 open box

Used as component in (2)

のう脳 brain なやみ悩 worry

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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.

#17 凵 open box