犯 – crime, sin, offense

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The kanji 犯 means crime, sin, offense. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ハン、ボン (han, bon); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is おか.す (okasu). It is written with 5 strokes, under radical 犬 (no. 94).

Stroke order

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

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ハン	han
On’yomi	ボン	bon
Kun’yomi	おか.す	okasu

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: 犬 (Kangxi radical 94). Components: 乙・卩.

Words using 犯

犯罪はんざいcrime犯人はんにんoffender防犯ぼうはんprevention of crime犯すおかすto commit (e.g. crime)

Example sentences

戦争は人類に対する犯罪だ。

War is a crime against humanity.

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その犯人はまだつかまっていない。

The criminal is still at large.

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ビルはその罪を犯していなかった。

Bill did not commit the crime.

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Kanji with the same radical

状独献狙獲猛犬狭狂獄猫獣猿狩狡

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