EntryCommon
  1. Noun

    misfortune; bad luck; evil; disaster

  2. unlucky year; critical year; year (esp. age 25 and 42 for men, 19 and 33 for women) that is considered unlucky

    Abbreviationsee 厄年

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

unlucky, misfortune, bad luck, disaster

On
ヤク
Strokes
4
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N1
Frequency
2123 of 2500
Radical
cliff
WaniKani
Level 35

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Dictionary and index codes (30)
CodeReference
3-2-2SKIP code
2p2.3The Kanji Dictionary
7121.2Four corner code
3356deroo
5384Unicode hex code
1-44-81JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
816Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
646New Nelson (John Haig)
2947New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3665Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1870Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2550Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1415Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1519Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1915A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
68Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1829Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2893Morohashi
1859A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1341Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1424Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1116Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1026Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1721Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
257Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1427Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
e4Pinyin reading
aegKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
35WaniKani level