Kanji
N2 12 strokes Grade 8 freq #1574

dull, slow, foolish, blunt

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

gold kane

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

becoming dull; slowing down
thickheaded; insensitive
blunt weapon
dull; slow
local train; slow train

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

dull (e.g. a knife); blunt
to become blunt; to grow dull
to blunt; to dull
thickheaded; obtuse

Example sentences

And you say I don't have a nose for what's popular.

He has dull senses.

If, on the other hand, children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do, they are likely to become dull and unintelligent.

Am I slipping?