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厄 kanji
unlucky, misfortune, bad luck, disaster
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Secondary school
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NoneWords with 厄
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3厄介Populartrouble; burden; nuisance; bother; worry; care; dependence; support; kindness; obligation; staying (with a person)
- —厄Popularmisfortune; bad luck; evil; disaster; unlucky year; critical year; year (esp. age 25 and 42 for men, 19 and 33 for women) that is considered unlucky
- —厄年Popularunlucky year; critical year; year (esp. age 25 and 42 for men, 19 and 33 for women) that is considered unlucky (orig. in Onmyōdō); bad year; annus horribilis
- —災厄calamity; disaster; accident
- —前厄the year before a critical age; the year before an inauspicious year
- —厄災calamity; disaster; accident
- —厄前the year before the unlucky year
- —厄難calamity; evil; misfortune
- —厄日unlucky day; bad day; evil day; ill-omened day; off day; critical day (for a crop)
- —大厄calamity; disaster; great misfortune; grand climacteric
- —後厄the year following an inauspicious year
- —苦厄hardship and misfortune
- —本厄critical year in one's life; inauspicious year
- —困厄distress; disaster
- —厄運bad luck; misfortune
- —荷厄介encumbrance; burden; drag
- —厄介事troublesome matter; burden; difficult task; chore; hassle
- —厄介者burden; nuisance; bother; troublemaker; hanger-on; dependent; parasite
- —厄介物nuisance; encumbrance
- —厄負けvictimized by the unlucky year; victimised by the unlucky year