厄 — unlucky, misfortune, bad luck

やっ厄 unlucky

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

U+5384 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #2123 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1519 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

unlucky
misfortune
bad luck
disaster

word

やっ ya Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

厄(やっ) 介(かい) yakkai troublesome

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

厂 cliff

卩 seal

Used as component in (1)

あぶない危 dangerous

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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.

#27 厂 cliff