Meaning & readings
damage, loss, disadvantage, hurt, injure
On’yomi ソン
Kun’yomi そこ.なう、そこな.う、-そこ.なう、そこ.ねる、-そこ.ねる
Origin
The left side is a hand radical showing action or doing something. The right side is a character meaning "member" or "complete number." Together they suggest the idea of reducing or breaking what should be whole—using your hand to diminish or spoil something that was complete. This combination naturally came to mean damage, loss, or harm to something's full state. The character essentially pictures the action of making something less than it should be.
Components
- 扌
- 員
Common words
Easily confused with
These look alike but are unrelated in meaning — check the stroke that differs.
Reference
- Strokes
- 13
- Kangxi radical
- 64
- Formation type
- Compound ideographic (combined meanings)
- Grade
- Grade 5 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #807 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+0640D