厄 — kanji meaning “unlucky”
厄
unlucky, misfortune, bad luck, disaster
- Meanings
- unlucky, misfortune, bad luck, disaster
- On'yomi
- ヤク (yaku)
- Kun'yomi
- —
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #2123 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 27
- Chinese reading
- è — Chinese character page
Words with 厄
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 厄介 | やっかい yakkai | trouble; burden; nuisance |
| 厄年 | やくどし yakudoshi | unlucky year; critical year; year (esp. age 25 and 42 for men, 19 and 33 for women) that is considered unlucky (orig. in Onmyōdō) |
| 災厄 | さいやく saiyaku | calamity; disaster; accident |
| 厄除け | やくよけ yakuyoke | warding off disaster; protecting against misfortune |
| 厄払い | やくばらい yakubarai | exorcism; ceremonial cleansing from evil influence |
| 厄日 | やくび yakubi | unlucky day; bad day; evil day |
| 厄落とし | やくおとし yakuotoshi | escape from evil; exorcism |
| 大厄 | たいやく taiyaku | calamity; disaster; great misfortune |
| 後厄 | あとやく atoyaku | the year following an inauspicious year |
| 前厄 | まえやく maeyaku | the year before a critical age; the year before an inauspicious year |
| 厄難 | やくなん yakunan | calamity; evil; misfortune |
| 厄瓜多 | エクアドル ekuadoru | Ecuador |
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