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瘴 — 16 strokes ／ Radical「疒」

道
1University / general (hardest) ／ 16 strokes ／ Radical「疒」
On
ショウしょう · shō
Kun
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Meaning
miasma

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Sickness 疒 with 章 as phonetic: the illness caught from the noxious air of hills and rivers.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 瘴気しょうき

    miasma

  • 瘴癘しょうれい

    a miasmic disease

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

谷底(たにそこ)に瘴気(しょうき)が立(た)ちこめる。

Miasma hangs thick in the bottom of the valley.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

瘴気瘴癘瘴気spirit癘a pest…疔a deep…疚to fee…疝colic疥scabie…疣a wart妝to ado…呏gallon劭to str…炒to sti…杪a tree…
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 疒Map of reading ショウAll maps

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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