衰 hanja, meaning decline, read 쇠 (soe)
Reading
decline, falter, decrease; weaken
쇠할 쇠soehal soe
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 쇠할 (soehal) is the Korean for decline, and 쇠 (soe) is the reading. Say 쇠할 쇠 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- ⾐ 145
- Beyond radical
- 4
- Mandarin
- shuāi
- Japanese on
- sui
- Japanese kun
- otoroeru
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.