殘 hanja, meaning injure, read 잔 (jan)
Reading
injure, spoil; oppress; broken
남을 잔nameul jan
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 남을 (nameul) is the Korean for injure, and 잔 (jan) is the reading. Say 남을 잔 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- ⽍ 78
- Beyond radical
- 8
- Mandarin
- cán
- Japanese on
- zan
- Japanese kun
- nokoru
Vocabulary
Words that use 殘
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Radical ⽍ · 78
Built on the same root.
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.