Entry
  1. Noun

    dry cough; hacking cough

    妻の乾咳が気になります。
    I'm concerned about my wife's hacking cough.
  2. intentional cough (e.g. to get someone's attention)

Also written 乾咳【からせき】

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Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

empty, sky, void, vacant, vacuum

Kun
そらあ.くあ.きあ.けるからす.くす.かすむな.しい
On
クウ
Strokes
8
Taught
Grade 1
JLPT
N4
Frequency
304 of 2500
Radical
cave
WaniKani
Level 5

Built from

Used in names as

うつ

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
2-3-5, 2-5-3SKIP code
3m5.12The Kanji Dictionary
3010.1Four corner code
772deroo
7a7aUnicode hex code
1-22-85JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3317Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4192New Nelson (John Haig)
2227New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2767Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1418Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1913Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1317Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1414Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
233A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
723Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
184Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
25415Morohashi
15A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
140Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
140Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
65sakade
77Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
66henshall3
73Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
304crowley
461Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.17busy_people
1452Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1327Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
kong1, kong4Pinyin reading
gongKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
5WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

cough, clear throat

Kun
せ.くしわぶ.くせきしわぶき
On
カイガイ
Strokes
9
Radical
mouth

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (13)
CodeReference
1-3-6SKIP code
3d6.10The Kanji Dictionary
6008.2Four corner code
3762deroo
54b3Unicode hex code
1-19-17JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
921Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
789New Nelson (John Haig)
2162Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2283Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3555Morohashi
ke2, hai1, ka3, kai4Pinyin reading
haeKorean reading