| 1159 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) | 
| 1725 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage | 
| 663 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) | 
| 1337 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) | 
| 1085 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) | 
| 173 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) | 
| 1280 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) | 
| 1354 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) | 
| 1812 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) | 
| 172 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide | 
| 3679 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) | 
| 1877 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) | 
| 2557 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) | 
| 1503 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) | 
| 1803 | Morohashi | 
| 2961 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) | 
| 442 | New Nelson (John Haig) | 
| 1490 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) | 
| 1603 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) | 
| 1022 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) | 
      villain, evil, bad luck, disaster
    
    - On:
- キョウ
      Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
    
    
      JLPT level N1
    
    
      1673 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
    
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 凶 【キョウ】 bad luck, ill fortune, misfortune
- 凶悪 【キョウアク】 atrocious, heinous, fiendish, brutal, vicious
- 元凶 【ゲンキョウ】 ringleader, main culprit, main cause, source
- 大凶 【ダイキョウ】 terrible luck, very bad luck
Readings
- Korean:
- hyung
Spanish
- mal
- maldad
- desastre
- calamidad
Portuguese
- vilão
- mau
- sorte ruim
- desastre
French
- vaurien
- mauvais
- malchance
- désastre
| 1275 | 2001 Kanji | 
| 0a4.19 | The Kanji Dictionary | 
| 3-2-2 | SKIP code | 
| 2277.0 | Four corner code | 
| 1-22-07 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code | 
| 51f6 | Unicode hex code |