Kanji 弱

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弱

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Radical: ⼸ (57)

Strokes: 10

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On:

ジャク

jaku

Kun:

よわ.い、よわ.る、よわ.まる、よわ.める

yowa.i, yowa.ru, yowa.maru, yowa.meru

Reading in names:

Meanings:

слабый

weak, frail

Grade: 2

JLPT: 4

Kanji shape:

Kanji elements: 冫, 弓, 羽

Antonyms: 強, 堅

Synonyms: 柔

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Examples

十ドル弱

じゅうドルじゃく

juudorujaku

a little less than ten dollars

弱い

よわい

yowai

слабый

weak, frail

弱まる

よわまる

yowamaru

abate, be weakened [v.i.]

弱める

よわめる

yowameru

weaken [v.t.]

弱る

よわる

yowaru

be weakened, be troubled [v.i.]

弱点

じゃくてん

jakuten

слабое место

weakness

弱者

じゃくしゃ

jakusha

the weak

弱震

じゃくしん

jakushin

mild earthquake

Reading in other languages

Korean: 약

Korean (latin): yag

Pinyin: ruo4

Vietnam: Nhược

Encoding

BIG5: AE 7A

DECIMAL: 24369

HEX: 5F31

JIS_LEVEL: 1

MINKUTEN: 1-28-69

UTF16: 5F31

UTF8: E5 BC B1

Dictionary indexes

A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade): 236

A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Ken Henshall): 154

A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall): 138

Essential Kanji (P.G. O'Neill): 595

Gakken Kanji Dictionary ("A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage"): 819

Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki; White Rabbit Press): 169

Japanese Names (P.G. O'Neill): 1647

Kanji & Kana (Spahn & Hadamitzky): 218

Kanji & Kana (Spahn & Hadamitzky, 2 edition): 218

Kanji Learners Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 1999): 792

Kanji Learners Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 2 edition, 2013): 1080

Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono): 112

Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide: 610

Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 2013): 1499

Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette): 1244

Morohashi Daikanwajiten (Volume 4, page 0710): 9791P

New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 1990): 1167

Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig): 1236

Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig, 6 edition): 1323

The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Andrew Nelson): 650

The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary (John Haig): 1692

Tuttle Kanji Cards: 196

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