Kanji
N1 18 strokes Grade 8 freq #1973

mannerism, habit, vice, trait, fault

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

sickness yamaidare

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

pet saying; favorite phrase
fastidiousness; love of cleanliness
disposition; inclination
collecting mania; mania for collecting
mythomania; propensity to lie
predisposition; inclination
kleptomania
fastidiousness; fussiness about cleanliness, etc.
(having an) overactive imagination; tendency to get lost in one's imagination
addiction

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

habit (usu. a bad one); tendency
and yet; though
abruptly dissolving relationships (as if pressing the reset button in a game)
junk ball (pitch); off-speed pitch
great men have eccentricities; fine horses have quirks
every person has their eccentricities
habit of putting things off; truancy habit
to be hard to deal with; to be an eccentric
bad habit; bad habits
having a habit of stealing things; being light-fingered

Example sentences

My grandmother used to say that she would live to be a hundred, but she died at the age of 85.

You must get rid of that bad habit.

Bad habits die hard.

She is apt to fits of depression.