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贅 — 18 strokes ／ Radical「貝」

道
1University / general (hardest) ／ 18 strokes ／ Radical「貝」
On
ゼイ・セイぜい・せい · zei · sei
Kun
いぼibo
Meaning
luxury; superfluous

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Shell-money 貝 with 敖 as phonetic: what is in excess — luxury and surplus.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 贅沢ぜいたく

    luxury; extravagance

  • 贅言ぜいげん

    superfluous words

More words with this kanji

  • 疣贅ゆうぜい

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

今日(きょう)は少(すこ)し贅沢(ぜいたく)な食事(しょくじ)をした。

Today we had a slightly luxurious meal.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

贅沢贅言贅沢swamp言to say貶to dis…貽to bes…貲wealth賈to tra…賚to bes…砌the st…穽a pitf…洒to was…倩carefu…晟bright
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 貝Map of reading ゼイAll maps

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