厄 – unlucky, misfortune, bad luck

4 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#2123 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 厄 means unlucky, misfortune, bad luck, disaster. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ヤク (yaku). It is written with 4 strokes, under radical 厂 (no. 27).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ヤク	yaku

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: 厂 (Kangxi radical 27). Components: 卩・厂.

Words using 厄

厄介やっかいtrouble

Kanji with the same radical

原厳厚

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