狂 — lunatic, insane, crazy

くるう狂 lunatic

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes

U+72C2 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1425 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #277 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

lunatic
insane
crazy
confuse

word

くる kuru 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).

狂(くる) う kuruu to go mad

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

熱(ねっ) 狂(きょう) nekkyou frenzy 狂(きょう) 気(き) kyouki madness 狂(きょう) kyou madness

Appears in idioms

狂喜乱舞四字熟語

lunatic, rejoice, riot, dance

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

犭 dog/beast (left form)

おう王 king

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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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