駄 – burdensome, pack horse, horse load

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The kanji 駄 means burdensome, pack horse, horse load, send by horse, trivial, worthless. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ダ、タ (da, ta). It is written with 14 strokes, under radical 馬 (no. 187).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ダ	da
On’yomi	タ	ta

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: 馬 (Kangxi radical 187). Components: 大・馬・丶・杰.

Words using 駄

無駄むだfutility下駄げたgeta無駄遣いむだづかいwaste (of money, time, etc.)駄作ださくpoor piece of work

Example sentences

今更後悔しても無駄だ。

It's no use regretting it now.

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下駄を突っかけて表に飛び出した。

I slipped on my geta and dashed outside.

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どうせ駄作だろうと思っていたのだけど、どっこいなかなかいい本だった。

I was expecting it to be a bad book, but damn me if it wasn't quite good after all.

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Kanji with the same radical

験馬駅駐駆騒驚騰騙馴

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