Kanji
N1 11 strokes Grade 8 freq #1958

mark, foot print

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)

trace; vestige
bloodstain
bullet hole; bullet mark
ejector mark (on a cartridge)
manual strangulation mark; throttling mark
extractor mark (on a cartridge)
scar; cicatrix
scar contracture; cicatricial contraction
injection scar (e.g. injected drugs)
scar (e.g. from operation, injection); trace

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

brake marks; skid marks
skid mark; tire mark
shoe print (of a suspect at a crime scene); footprint

Example sentences

By demolishing buildings of bygone times, we wipe out every trace of the past forever.

The severity of such marks can reveal whether or not any of these people were habitually engaged in hard labor.