Kanken 1
孽

Meaning

Kanji 孽

evil

evil, ghost, son of concubine

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Unicode code: U+5B7D

Readings

Kunyomi 訓読み
ひこばえわきばらわざわ.い
Onyomi 音読み
ゲチゲツ
Nanori 名乗り
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Variant: 孼 (Formal)

Jōyō
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JLPT
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Frequency
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Strokes
20
Radical
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Kanji Kentei
Level 1
Similar Kanji
薛 • 蘖 • 糵 • 㔑 • 㜸 • 躠

Related vocabulary

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Showing 1 of 1 entries that include this kanji.

余蘖

よげつ

ruined family surviving through a descendant

Example sentences

5 reference sentences

彼は孽として生まれたが、父に認められなかった。

He was born as a concubine's son, but his father did not acknowledge him.

その家では、孽を跡継ぎにするかで争いが起きた。

In that family, a dispute broke out over whether the concubine's son should become the heir.

村人たちはこの飢饉を古い孽のせいだと信じていた。

The villagers believed that this famine was caused by an old calamity.

戦のあと、都には孽が満ちたと記されている。

It is recorded that after the war, the capital was filled with calamity.

長く続く不幸を、人々は家に残った孽だと呼んだ。

People called that long-lasting misfortune the calamity left behind in the house.