EntryCommonJLPT N1
  1. Ichidan verb, Transitive verb

    to blame; to reproach; to censure; to rebuke; to reprove; to find fault; to take to task; to criticize; to criticise

    先生は彼女が間違ったことを咎めた。
    The teacher blamed her for the mistake.
  2. to question (a suspect); to challenge

  3. to aggravate (an injury); to be aggravated; to get inflamed

  4. Ichidan verb, Intransitive verb

    to prick (one's conscience)

    see 気が咎める

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

blame, censure, reprimand

Kun
とが.めるとが
On
キュウコウ
Strokes
8
Radical
mouth

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Dictionary and index codes (12)
CodeReference
2-5-3SKIP code
3d5.15The Kanji Dictionary
2860.4Four corner code
548eUnicode hex code
1-50-75JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
908Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
759New Nelson (John Haig)
2156Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2278Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3493Morohashi
jiu4Pinyin reading
gu, goKorean reading