汚 — dirty, pollute, disgrace

きたない汚 dirty

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 6 strokes

U+6C5A Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #908 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1334 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

dirty
pollute
disgrace
rape
defile

word

きたな kitana 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).

汚(きたな) い kitanai dirty

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

汚(お) 染(せん) osen pollution 汚(お) 職(しょく) oshoku corruption

よご yogo 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).

汚(よご) れ yogore dirt 汚(よご) れる yogoreru to get dirty 汚(よご) す yogosu to make dirty

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

氵 water (left form)

に二 two #7

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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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