損 – damage, loss, disadvantage

13 strokesTaught in grade 5#807 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 損 means damage, loss, disadvantage, hurt, injure. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ソン (son); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is そこ.なう、そこな.う、-そこ.なう、そこ.ねる、-そこ.ねる (sokonau, sokonau, sokonau, sokoneru, sokoneru). It is written with 13 strokes, under radical 手 (no. 64).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ソン	son
Kun’yomi	そこ.なう	sokonau
Kun’yomi	そこな.う	sokonau
Kun’yomi	-そこ.なう	sokonau
Kun’yomi	そこ.ねる	sokoneru
Kun’yomi	-そこ.ねる	sokoneru

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: 手 (Kangxi radical 64). Components: 貝・目・ハ・口・扎.

Words using 損

損そんloss損害そんがいdamage損得そんとくloss and gain損うそこなうto harm損失そんしつloss (of assets, profit, etc.)破損はそんdamage

Example sentences

高望みをするとかえって損をする。

You may go farther and fare worse.

Tatoeba #173181

その暴風雨は大損害をもたらした。

The storm brought heavy losses.

Tatoeba #206725

損得なしにしよう。

Let's make it a fair trade.

Tatoeba #139249

Kanji with the same radical

手持指投打提挙援担技撃推接授摘批

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