Jisho

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4 strokes
Radical:
cliff
Parts:
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

Speed

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

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
e4
Korean:
aeg

Spanish

  • desgracia
  • mala suerte
  • desastre
  • calamidad
  • abreviatura de año malo

Portuguese

  • infeliz
  • desgraça
  • sorte ruim
  • desaster

French

  • malchance
  • infortune
  • désastre
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)
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

18 strokes
Radical:
small bird
Parts:
difficult, impossible, trouble, accident, defect
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N3
330 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 難 【ナン】 difficulty, trouble, hardship, shortage, accident, disaster, danger, fault, defect, flaw, criticism, charge, blame
  • 難解 【ナンカイ】 difficult to understand, unintelligible, abstruse
  • 至難 【シナン】 most difficult, next to impossible
  • 海難 【カイナン】 accident at sea, sea disaster, shipwreck

Kun reading compounds

  • 難い 【かたい】 difficult, hard
  • 難しい 【むずかしい】 difficult, hard, troublesome, complicated, serious (disease, problem, etc.), impossible, unfeasible, fussy, particular, fastidious, hard to please, displeased, gloomy, glum, sullen, serious (look), dirty, unclean, filthy, detestable, unpleasant, uncomfortable, creepy, spooky
  • 難しい顔をする 【むずかしいかおをする】 to look displeased, to frown, to scowl, to look grave, to look serious
  • 難しい 【むずかしい】 difficult, hard, troublesome, complicated, serious (disease, problem, etc.), impossible, unfeasible, fussy, particular, fastidious, hard to please, displeased, gloomy, glum, sullen, serious (look), dirty, unclean, filthy, detestable, unpleasant, uncomfortable, creepy, spooky

Readings

Japanese names:
な、 なに
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
nan2, nan4
Korean:
nan, na

Spanish

  • desastre
  • dificultad
  • sufrimiento
  • ataque al punto débil
  • difícil
  • imposible

Portuguese

  • impossível
  • difícil
  • dificuldade
  • acidente
  • defeito

French

  • difficile
  • impossible
  • problème
  • accident
  • défaut
853 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
960 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
949 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
442 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5038 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
800 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
995 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2760 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
557 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
566 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
526 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1856 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2310 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1196 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1632 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1594 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
42128P Morohashi
1838 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6515 New Nelson (John Haig)
1580 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1703 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
351 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
1003 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1975 2001 Kanji
8c10.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-10-8 SKIP code
4051.4 Four corner code
1-38-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
96e3 Unicode hex code