惑 — beguile, delusion, perplexity

まどわす惑 beguile

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes

U+60D1 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #777 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #661 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

beguile
delusion
perplexity

word

まど mado 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).

惑(まど) わす madowasu to mislead 戸(と) 惑(まど) う tomadou to be bewildered

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

迷(めい) 惑(わく) meiwaku nuisance 疑(ぎ) 惑(わく) giwaku suspicion 惑(わく) 星(せい) wakusei planet 思(おも) 惑(わく) omowaku speculation 誘(ゆう) 惑(わく) yuuwaku temptation 困(こん) 惑(わく) konwaku bewilderment

Appears in idioms

迷惑千万四字熟語

astray, beguile, thousand, ten thousand

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

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こころ心 heart #61

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