癇 — 17 strokes / Radical「疒」
道1University / general (hardest) / 17 strokes / Radical「疒」
- On
- カンかん · kan
- Kun
- ひきつけhikitsuke
- Meaning
- irritability; convulsions
Stroke order
Origin
Sickness 疒 with 閒 as phonetic: the illness of convulsions; by extension, a quick temper.
Compounds
- 癇癪かんしゃく
a fit of temper
- 癇に障るかんにさわる
to grate on one’s nerves
- 癲癇てんかん
Example
些細な言い方が癇に障る。
A small turn of phrase grates on their nerves.
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Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)