Meaning & readings
wicked, injustice, wrong
Origin
This character combines a sound hint with a location marker. The left component, 牙 (fang or tusk), provides a rough pronunciation guide — it sounds like "ガ" which is similar to the character's "ジャ" reading. The right component is a radical meaning "town" or "place," which classifies this as a word about society or human affairs. Together, the character suggests something twisted or wrong within society, capturing the sense of wickedness or injustice that the character conveys.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 牙
- ⻏
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 8
- Kangxi radical
- 163
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1612 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+090AA