臭 — stinking, ill-smelling, suspicious looking

くさい臭 stinking

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes

U+81ED Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1760 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #128 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

stinking
ill-smelling
suspicious looking
odor
savor
fragrance
be fragrant
stink
glow
be bright

word

くさ kusa 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).

臭(くさ) い kusai smelly

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

臭(しゅう) shuu stink

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

みずから自 self #132

いぬ犬 dog #94

おおきい大 big #37

Used as component in (1)

かぐ嗅 smell

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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.

#132 自 self