Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
dog 犬 (犭)
Parts:
lunatic, insane, crazy, confuse
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1425 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 狂 【キョウ】 (some type of) enthusiast, someone possessed of a (certain kind of) mental abnormality
  • 狂気 【キョウキ】 madness, insanity
  • 酔狂 【スイキョウ】 whim, caprice, vagary, eccentricity
  • 躁狂 【ソウキョウ】 frenzy, delirium, wild excitement, mania

Kun reading compounds

  • 狂う 【くるう】 to go mad, to lose one's mind, to go crazy, to go insane, to get out of order, to go amiss, to malfunction, to become imprecise, to go wrong (of a plan or expectation, etc.), to fall through, to get mixed up, to go crazy (over someone or something), to get enthusiastic, to go wild
  • 狂おしい 【くるおしい】 mad (with grief, love, etc.), crazy, out of one's mind, on the verge of insanity
  • 狂おしい 【くるおしい】 mad (with grief, love, etc.), crazy, out of one's mind, on the verge of insanity

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kuang2
Korean:
gwang

Spanish

  • locura
  • desorden
  • enloquecer
  • loco
  • demente

Portuguese

  • lunático
  • louco
  • insano
  • confundir

French

  • fou
  • aliéné
  • insensé
  • confusion
1161 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1352 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2872 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
972 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1523 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
366 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
883 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
904 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1513 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1300 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
318 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
202 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
241 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
266 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
20287 Morohashi
269 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3562 New Nelson (John Haig)
260 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
277 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1141 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2972 2001 Kanji
3g4.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
4121.4 Four corner code
1-22-24 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
72c2 Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
woman, female
Parts:
delusion, unnecessarily, without authority, reckless
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2264 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 妄想 【モウソウ】 delusion, wild idea, (wild) fancy, (ridiculous) fantasy
  • 盲信 【モウシン】 blind acceptance, blind belief, credulity
  • 迷妄 【メイモウ】 illusion, fallacy, delusion
  • 謬妄 【ビュウモウ】 fallacy, conjecture, baseless thing, random thing
  • 妄想 【モウソウ】 delusion, wild idea, (wild) fancy, (ridiculous) fantasy
  • 盲信 【モウシン】 blind acceptance, blind belief, credulity
  • 狂妄 【キョウボウ】 eccentric, wild, off-kilter, mad
  • 誣謗 【フボウ】 slander

Kun reading compounds

  • 妄りに 【みだりに】 without authority, without reason, unnecessarily, recklessly, indiscriminately, arbitrarily

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
wang4
Korean:
mang

Spanish

  • ilusión
  • engaño
  • innecesariamente
  • arbitrariamente
  • sin razón

Portuguese

  • desilusão
  • desnecessariamente
  • sem autoridade
  • inconsequente

French

  • illusion
  • inutile
  • sans autorisation
  • imprudent
1851 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1937 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
288 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1186 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1376 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1463 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1696 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
424 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2509 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1273 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1739 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
498 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6063 Morohashi
2016 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1177 New Nelson (John Haig)
487 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
526 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1071 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
469 2001 Kanji
2j4.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-4 SKIP code
0040.4 Four corner code
1-44-49 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5984 Unicode hex code