醜 – ugly, unclean, shame

17 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#2074 in newspaper frequencyN2 vocabulary

The kanji 醜 means ugly, unclean, shame, bad looking. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is シュウ (shuu); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is みにく.い、しこ (minikui, shiko). It is written with 17 strokes, under radical 酉 (no. 164).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	シュウ	shuu
Kun’yomi	みにく.い	minikui
Kun’yomi	しこ	shiko

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: 酉 (Kangxi radical 164). Components: 鬼・田・酉・儿・匕・厶.

Words using 醜

醜いみにくいugly

Example sentences

「美しい」とか「醜い」といった言葉は相対的な用語である。

The words 'beautiful' and 'ugly' are relative terms.

Tatoeba #236160

オレの醜い部分がオレを引き裂く。

The ugly side of myself tears me up.

Tatoeba #227444

Kanji with the same radical

配酒酸酬酷酔酢酪酌醤

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