EntryCommonJLPT N1
  1. Godan verb with 'mu' ending, Intransitive verb

    to warp; to bend; to contort

    苦痛で彼の顔が歪んでいる。
    His face is distorted by pain.
  2. to be perverted; to be warped (of a view, mind, etc.); to be distorted; to be cross-grained

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
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warp, bend, strained, distort

Kun
いが.むいびつひず.むゆが.む
On
ワイ
Strokes
9
Frequency
2348 of 2500
Radical
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Dictionary and index codes (13)
CodeReference
2-4-5SKIP code
2m7.4The Kanji Dictionary
1010.1Four corner code
6b6aUnicode hex code
1-47-36JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
54Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2960New Nelson (John Haig)
3095Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2862Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2875Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
16286Morohashi
wai1Pinyin reading
wae, aeKorean reading