弊 — abuse, evil, vice

へい弊 abuse

へい

U+5F0A Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1750 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1120 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

abuse
evil
vice
breakage

Readings

On'yomi: へい hei

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

弊(へい) 社(しゃ) heisha our company 弊(へい) 害(がい) heigai harmful effect 疲(ひ) 弊(へい) hihei exhaustion

Words by frequency and grade

3 words

Each dot is a word containing 弊: 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 · 1 word has no frequency rank; it sits in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

敝 worn out

廾 two hands

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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.

#55 廾 two hands