Kanji1 / 8
毒 kanji
poison, virus, venom, germ, harm, injury, spite
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ドク
Kun readings
NoneWords with 毒
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —毒茸toadstool; poisonous mushroom
- —毒見tasting (food or drink) for poison; checking the taste (of a dish); seeing how something tastes
- —黴毒syphilis
- —屍毒ptomaine poisoning
- —申毒India
- —痳毒gonorrhoea; gonorrhea; the clap
- —毒味役food taster
- —毒突くto curse (at someone); to call someone names; to speak bitterly
- —毒けしantidote
- —毒よけprotection against poison
- —毒蜘蛛poisonous spider; venomous spider; wolf spider
- —毒ぐもpoisonous spider; venomous spider; wolf spider
- —毒だみchameleon plant (Houttuynia cordata)
- —青粉毒poisonous algae bloom (often green in color)
- —毒ばりsting (of a bee, etc.); stinger; needle covered with poison
- —ふぐ毒fugu poison
- —河豚毒fugu poison
- —蠅毒草Asian lopseed (Phryma leptostachya subsp. asiatica)
- —ハチ毒bee venom; bee poison
- —御気の毒I am sorry (to hear, to say, etc.); a pity