損 — damage, loss, disadvantage

そん損 damage

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 13 strokes

U+640D Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #807 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #719 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

damage
loss
disadvantage
hurt
injure

word

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

損(そん) son loss 損(そん) 害(がい) songai damage 損(そん) 失(しつ) sonshitsu loss 損(そん) 益(えき) soneki profit and loss 破(は) 損(そん) hason damage 損(そん) 傷(しょう) sonshou damage 毀(き) 損(そん) kison damage

そこ soko 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).

損(そこ) なう sokonau to harm 損(そこ) ねる sokoneru to harm

Appears in idioms

損して得取れ諺

Lose now to gain later

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

扌 hand (left form)

いん員 member

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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.

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