Kanji
N1 6 strokes Grade 8 freq #711

good luck, joy, congratulations

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

mouth kuchi

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

lucky omen; good omen
ominous; sinister
excellent luck (esp. in fortune-telling)
good news
Sri-mahadevi (consort of Vaishravana)
Kibi (former province located in present-day Okayama and parts of Hiroshima, Hyōgo and Kagawa prefectures; later split into Bizen, Bitchu and Bingo provinces)
Kirikirijin (1981 satirical novel by Inoue Hisashi)
Kichiimo (chain of sweet potato restaurants)
moderately good luck (in fortune-telling)
very auspicious day

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

gyudon from the Yoshinoya chain restaurant
Sumiyoshi-kai (yakuza syndicate)
Yoshinoya (gyudon restaurant chain)
Yoshimoto Kogyo
scratch marks on the neck of a body (indicating a struggling victim of strangulation)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
guide to the Yoshiwara red light district
earth form of "good luck" character

Example sentences

He believes in the superstition that 13 is an unlucky number.

It is said that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day.