脆 – brittle, fragile, easy to beat

10 strokesN1 vocabulary

The kanji 脆 means brittle, fragile, easy to beat, sentimental, susceptible. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ゼイ、セイ、セツ (zei, sei, setsu); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is もろ.い、よわい (moroi, yowai). It is written with 10 strokes, under radical 肉 (no. 130).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ゼイ	zei
On’yomi	セイ	sei
On’yomi	セツ	setsu
Kun’yomi	もろ.い	moroi
Kun’yomi	よわい	yowai

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: 肉 (Kangxi radical 130). Components: 月・厂・勹・卩.

Words using 脆

脆いもろいbrittle

Kanji with the same radical

能育脳背脱肉臓肝胸腕脅肩腐脚腹膨

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