弊 — abuse, evil, vice

へい弊 abuse

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 15 strokes

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.

Meanings

abuse
evil
vice
breakage

word

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

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