夭 — 4 strokes ／ Radical「女」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 4 strokes ／ Radical「女」
- On
- ヨウ・オウ・カ
- Kun
- わか.い・わかじに・わざわい
- Meaning
- to die young
Origin
A pictograph of a person bending: youth, and dying while still young.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 夭折ようせつ
dying young
- 夭逝ようせい
early death
Example
その画家は二十代で夭折した。
The painter died young, in their twenties.
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