侘 — 8 strokes / Radical「亻」
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- On
- タ
- Kun
- わび.しい・ほこ.る・わ.びる
- Meaning
- wabi; forlorn
Origin
Person 亻 with 宅 as phonetic: an unfulfilled, forlorn heart; in Japan, the aesthetic of wabi.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 侘びわび
wabi; austere simplicity
- 侘び寂びわびさび
wabi-sabi
Example
茶室に侘び寂びの世界を見た。
In the tea room I glimpsed the world of wabi-sabi.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)