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Japanese symbol for “poisoned”

Romaji: dokuiri
poisoned

In Japanese, poisoned is , read (dokuiri).

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Meanings

  1. adj-no poisoned

Kanji and stroke order

poison, virus, venom
on: ドク
8 strokes · JLPT 2
enter, insert
on: ニュウ、ジュ
kun: い.る、-い.る、-い.り、い.れる
2 strokes · JLPT 4

Related words

Words that share a kanji.

WordReadingMeaning
ちゅうどく chuudokupoisoning
しょうどく shoudokudisinfection; sterilization; sterilisation
きのどく kinodokupitiful; unfortunate; poor
しょくちゅうどく shokuchuudokufood poisoning
ゆうどく yuudokupoisonous; toxic
どくせい dokuseitoxicity; virulence
こうにゅう kounyuupurchase; buying
どうにゅう dounyuuintroduction; bringing in; installation

Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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