Kanji

怪

Meaning

suspicious mystery and apparition

Readings

Kun'yomi

  • あやしい
  • あやしむ

On'yomi

  • かい き bizarre
  • かい じゅう monster
  • かい だん ghost story
  • け が injury
  • け がにん wounded person
  • け げん puzzled

Practice Writing

Stroke: 1/8

Related Entries

怪 かい
mystery, wonder

Component Analysis

怪
suspicious, mystery, apparition
あや.しい, あや.しむ, カイ
忄
( 心 ) heart, standing heart radical variant (no. 61)
こころ, シン
圣
holy, sacred
たがや.す, コツ, クツ
又
or again, furthermore, on the other hand
また, また-, ユウ
土
soil, earth, ground...
つち, ド, ト

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