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癖

JLPT N1 18 strokes Frequency: #1973

Meanings

Mannerism, Habit, Vice, Trait, Fault, Kink

Radicals

疒

Decomposition

⿸疒辟

Etymology

Pictophonetic: sickness

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 18

Stroke Order

1 vertical right-to-left

2 horizontal bottom-to-top

3 diagonal top-to-bottom

4 dot bottom-to-top

5 rising bottom-to-top

6 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

7 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 diagonal right-to-left

9 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

10 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

11 horizontal bottom-to-top

12 vertical right-to-left

13 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

14 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

15 diagonal right-to-left

16 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

17 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

18 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ヘキ heki

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

くせ kuse

Words Using This Kanji

62 words total

Other (20 words)

fastidiousness

pet saying

(bad) habit

addiction

disposition

propensity to steal

fault

quirky

to become a habit

habit (usu. a bad one)

eccentricity

bad habit

bad habit

and yet

kinky hair

vagrant habits

drinking habits

idiomatic pronunciation or peculiar reading of a kanji or compound

手癖てくせ

having sticky fingers

奇癖きへき

strange habit

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