凶

See also 兇

Translingual

Han character

凶 (radical 17 凵+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 山大 (UK), four-corner 2277₀)

1. culprit, sinister
2. murder
3. fierce, violent
4. bad
5. sad

References

• KangXi: page 135, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1803
• Dae Jaweon: page 300, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 306, character 19
• Unihan data for U+51F6

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Cantonese

Hanzi

凶 (Yale hung1)

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Japanese

Noun

凶 (hiragana きょう, romaji kyō)

1. ill fortune

Alternative forms

• 兇

Kanji

凶 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. ill fortune

Readings

• On: きょう (kyō)
• Kun: わるい (warui)

Compounds

• 凶悪
• 凶漢
• 凶器
• 凶行
• 凶刃
• 凶変
• 凶暴
• 元凶

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Korean

Hanja

凶 (hangeul 흉, revised hyung, McCune-Reischauer hyung)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

凶 (pinyin xiōng (xiong1), Wade-Giles hsiung¹)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

凶 (xiong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

凶 (hung)