邪

Translingual

Etymology

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Han character

邪 (radical 163 邑+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一竹弓中 (MHNL), four-corner 1722₇)

1. wrong, evil, depraved, vicious, perverse, heterodox
2. unnatural

References

• KangXi: page 1269, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39319
• Dae Jaweon: page 1768, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3758, character 4
• Unihan data for U+90AA

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Cantonese

Hanzi

邪 (Yale che4)

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Japanese

Kanji

邪 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: や (ya), じゃ (ja), しゃ (sha), じや (jya)
• Kun: や (ya), じや (jya), か (ka), よこしま (yokoshima)

Compounds

• 邪魔
• 風邪
• 邪気

Antonyms

(good): 良, 善

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Korean

Hanja

邪 (hangeul 사, 야, revised sa, ya, McCune-Reischauer sa, ya, Yale sa, ya)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

邪 (pinyin xié (xie2), Wade-Giles hsieh²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

邪 (tà, tá)