歪 – warp, bend, strained

9 strokes#2348 in newspaper frequencyN1 vocabulary

The kanji 歪 means warp, bend, strained, distort. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ワイ、エ (wai, e); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is いが.む、いびつ、ひず.む、ゆが.む (igamu, ibitsu, hizumu, yugamu). It is written with 9 strokes, under radical 止 (no. 77).

Stroke order

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

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ワイ	wai
On’yomi	エ	e
Kun’yomi	いが.む	igamu
Kun’yomi	いびつ	ibitsu
Kun’yomi	ひず.む	hizumu
Kun’yomi	ゆが.む	yugamu

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: 止 (Kangxi radical 77). Components: ｜・ノ・一・止・丶.

Words using 歪

歪むゆがむto warp歪むひずむto warp

Example sentences

苦痛で彼の顔が歪んでいる。

His face is distorted by pain.

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Kanji with the same radical

正歳止武歩歴歯

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.