凶 — villain, evil, bad luck

きょう凶 villain

きょう

U+51F6 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1673 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1603 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

villain
evil
bad luck
disaster

Readings

On'yomi: きょう kyou

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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).

凶(きょう) kyou misfortune 凶(きょう) 悪(あく) kyouaku atrocious 元(げん) 凶(きょう) genkyou ringleader 凶(きょう) 作(さく) kyousaku bad harvest 凶(きょう) 器(き) kyouki dangerous weapon

Words by frequency and grade

5 words

Each dot is a word containing 凶: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 3 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

乂 govern

凵 open box

Used as component in (2)

のう脳 brain なやみ悩 worry

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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.

#17 凵 open box