淫 — lewdness, licentiousness

みだら淫 lewdness

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 11 strokes

U+6DEB Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Heisig #788 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

lewdness
licentiousness

word

みだ mida 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).

淫(みだ) ら midara lewd

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

氵 water (left form)

爫 claw (top form)

壬 9th heavenly stem

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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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