ヤク
unlucky, misfortune, bad luck, disaster

This kanji has 4 strokes: 2 in the "cliff" radical (がんだれ) and 2 other strokes.

Sample compounds (6) :


  1. やっかい
    (an) trouble, burden, care, bother, worry, dependence, support, kindness, obligation

  2. まえやく
    the year before a critical age

  3. やくまえ
    the year before the unlucky year

  4. やくばらい
    good riddance, exorcism

  5. やくび
    unlucky day, evil day

  6. やくまけ
    victimized by the unlucky year
Kanji Character : 厄
Kuten Encoding : 4481
SJIS Encoding : 4c71
Unicode Encoding : 5384
Old Nelson Index : 816
Radical Number : 27
Frequency Ranking : 1902
Gakken Index : 1915
Grade Level : 8
Halpern Index : 2947
Heisig Index : 1415
Henshall Index : 1859
New Nelson Index : 646
O'Neil Index : 68
Stroke Count : 4
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 2p2.3
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 2
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 2
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : p
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 3
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 1341
SKIP Code : 3-2-2
De Roo Code : 3356
Four Corner Code : 7121.2
Korean reading : aeg
Pinyin reading : e4
Morohashi Index String : 2893
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 2.0643
Morohashi Index Number : 2893
Morohashi Page : 643
Morohashi Volume : 2
Dictionary Codes
  1. R3356
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