Reading
crime, sin, vice; evil; hardship
허물 죄heomul joe
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 허물 (heomul) is the Korean for crime, and 죄 (joe) is the reading. Say 허물 죄 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- ⽹ 122
- Beyond radical
- 8
- Mandarin
- zuì
- Japanese on
- zai
- Japanese kun
- tsumi
Vocabulary
Words that use 罪
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Radical ⽹ · 122
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.