Meaning & readings
dangerous, fear, uneasy
On’yomi キ
Kun’yomi あぶ.ない、あや.うい、あや.ぶむ
Origin
The character 危 combines two parts to express the idea of danger. The top component suggests something precarious or unstable, while the bottom component 厄 relates to misfortune or bad luck. Together, these elements create a picture of an unstable, unfortunate situation—something that threatens harm and causes fear. This visual combination of instability and misfortune naturally came to mean dangerous or uneasy.
Components
- 𠂊
- 厄
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 6
- Kangxi radical
- 26
- Formation type
- Compound ideographic (combined meanings)
- Grade
- Grade 6 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #606 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+05371