瘴 — 16 strokes / Radical「疒」
道1University / general (hardest) / 16 strokes / Radical「疒」
- On
- ショウ
- Kun
- —
- Meaning
- miasma
Origin
Sickness 疒 with 章 as phonetic: the illness caught from the noxious air of hills and rivers.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 瘴気しょうき
miasma
- 瘴癘しょうれい
a miasmic disease
Example
谷底に瘴気が立ちこめる。
Miasma hangs thick in the bottom of the valley.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)