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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)

足癖あしくせ

gait

抱き癖だきぐせ

habit of getting fussy unless held (of a baby)

女癖おんなぐせ

philandering

浪費癖ろうひへき

wasteful habits

寝癖ねぐせ

bed hair

奇矯な癖ききょうなへき

eccentric habit

酒癖が悪いさけぐせがわるい

being a bad drunk

怠け癖なまけぐせ

habit of idleness (laziness)

男癖おとこぐせ

interest in men

その癖そのくせ

and yet

潔癖性けっぺきしょう

obsession with cleanliness

自傷癖じしょうくせ

(practice of) self-injury

難癖つけるなんくせつける

to blame

酒癖の悪いさけぐせのわるい

being a bad drunk

難癖を付けるなんくせをつける

to blame

妄想癖もうそうへき

(having an) overactive imagination

潔癖症けっぺきしょう

fastidiousness

癖っ毛くせっけ

kinky hair

収集癖しゅうしゅうへき

collecting mania

悪い癖わるいくせ

bad habit

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