Jisho

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10 strokes (also 11)
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
crush, break, sprain, discourage
Kun:
くじ.くくじ.ける
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
1869 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 挫折 【ザセツ】 setback, failure (e.g. plans, business), frustration, discouragement
  • 挫傷 【ザショウ】 sprain, wrench, bruise, contusion, fracture
  • 頓挫 【トンザ】 setback, deadlock, standstill, impasse, miscarriage

Kun reading compounds

  • 挫く 【くじく】 to sprain, to twist, to dampen (enthusiasm), to discourage, to dishearten, to dispirit, to depress, to unnerve, to crush
  • 挫ける 【くじける】 to be disheartened, to lose heart, to be dispirited, to be crushed (emotionally), to be sprained, to be snapped, to be broken

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cuo4
Korean:
jwa

Spanish

  • aplastamiento
  • torcedura
  • desaliento
  • desánimo
  • aplastar
  • arrugar
  • torcer
  • romper
  • desalentar
  • desanimar

Portuguese

French

1913 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2091 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
519 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
392 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
12087 Morohashi
2163 New Nelson (John Haig)
2845 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1101 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3c7.15 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
1-3-8 SKIP code
5801.4 Four corner code
1-26-35 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
632b Unicode hex code