傷 – wound, hurt, injure

13 strokesTaught in grade 6#845 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 傷 means wound, hurt, injure, impair, pain, injury, cut, gash. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ショウ (shou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is きず、いた.む、いた.める (kizu, itamu, itameru). It is written with 13 strokes, under radical 人 (no. 9).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ショウ	shou
Kun’yomi	きず	kizu
Kun’yomi	いた.む	itamu
Kun’yomi	いた.める	itameru

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 人 (Kangxi radical 9). Components: ノ・化・日・勿・一・人・勹・乞.

Words using 傷

傷きずwound傷めるいためるto hurt火傷やけどburn中傷ちゅうしょうslander負傷ふしょうinjury傷付くきずつくto be wounded傷付けるきずつけるto wound

Example sentences

海水が傷にしみて痛いよ。

The seawater stings my cut.

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彼の額の傷は目立つ。

The scar on his forehead is conspicuous.

Tatoeba #117869

ここに傷があるので安くしてください。

There's a scratch here. Could you give me a discount?

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Kanji with the same radical

会人今代体作以保信件側任使係価住

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