1859 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
1915 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
816 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
1829 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
1116 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
68 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
1341 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
1424 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
1721 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
257 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
3665 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
1870 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2550 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
1427 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
2893 | Morohashi |
2947 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
646 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
1415 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
1519 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
1026 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
unlucky, misfortune, bad luck, disaster
- On:
- ヤク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2123 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 厄 【ヤク】 misfortune, bad luck, evil, disaster, unlucky year, critical year, year (esp. age 25 and 42 for men, 19 and 33 for women) that is considered unlucky
- 厄年 【ヤクドシ】 unlucky year, critical year, year (esp. age 25 and 42 for men, 19 and 33 for women) that is considered unlucky (orig. in Onmyōdō), bad year, annus horribilis
- 災厄 【サイヤク】 calamity, disaster, accident
- 大厄 【タイヤク】 calamity, disaster, great misfortune, grand climacteric
Readings
- Korean:
- aeg
Spanish
- desgracia
- mala suerte
- desastre
- calamidad
- abreviatura de año malo
Portuguese
- infeliz
- desgraça
- sorte ruim
- desaster
French
- malchance
- infortune
- désastre
3356 | 2001 Kanji |
2p2.3 | The Kanji Dictionary |
3-2-2 | SKIP code |
7121.2 | Four corner code |
1-44-81 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
5384 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
255 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 運 【ウン】 fortune, luck, chance
- 運営 【ウンエイ】 management, administration, operation
- 機運 【キウン】 opportunity, chance, good time (to do), trend, tendency, momentum
- 命運 【メイウン】 fate, destiny
Kun reading compounds
- 運ぶ 【はこぶ】 to carry, to transport, to move, to convey, to come, to go, to use (a brush, chopsticks, etc.), to move, to carry out, to proceed with, to arrange, to go (well, etc.), to proceed, to progress
Readings
- Korean:
- un
Spanish
- suerte
- destino
- transportar
Portuguese
- carregar
- sorte
- destino
- objetivo
- transportar
- progresso
- avanço
French
- porter
- chance
- destin
- destinée
- sort
- progrès
157 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
251 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
231 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
179 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
4725 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
373 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
263 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
1808 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
3.7 | Japanese for Busy People |
439 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
445 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
304 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
704 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
3894 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2006 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
2707 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
309 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
38998P | Morohashi |
3140 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
6092 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
303 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
325 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
157 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
389 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
3655 | 2001 Kanji |
2q9.10 | The Kanji Dictionary |
3-3-9 | SKIP code |
3730.4 | Four corner code |
1-17-31 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
904b | Unicode hex code |