Kanji Detail for 奢 - "extravagant, excessive, treat"

奢

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning

奢 means "extravagant, excessive, treat."
1. Extravagant - Wasteful; luxurious.
2. Excessive - Going too far; immoderate.
3. Treat - To pay for someone's food or drink.
Dictionary Citations

The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

extravagance; luxury

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

extravagant, wasteful; exaggerate

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

extravagant

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

exaggerated; extravagant, wasteful

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

Extravagant. Opposite of 儉 (frugal). Meaning spending without restraint. (Analects) "In rites, rather than extravagance, be frugal." | Excessive. Such as 奢願, 奢望, meaning one's wishes are excessive.
Onyomi

sha(シャ)
Kunyomi

ogo.ri(おご-り)

ogo.ru(おご-る)
Strokes

12 strokes
Radical

大 (dai)
Related Keywords

extravagant wasteful luxurious excessive going far immoderate treat pay food drink

僕が奢る番？
Is it my turn to pay?
彼女は華奢な体格だ。
She is delicately constituted.
奢りなら、飲む飲む。
If you're buying, I’m drinking.
・・・・おいおいおい、奢りとわかったらリミッター解除ですか二人とも。
... Hey-hey you two, is it no holds barred as soon as you know it's my treat?
「先輩、お昼ご飯、奢ってください！」「いつもいつも集るな」「いいじゃないですかぁ。先輩、昨日、バイト代が入ったんでしょ？」「仕方ないな。何食べに行く？」
"Senpai, please treat me to lunch!" "You should stop forever sponging off of me." "It's alright isn't it? Didn't you get payment from your part time job yesterday?" "I guess it can't be helped. What do you want to eat?"
「今日さぁ、昇進したんだ」「へぇ。よかったじゃん」「それがさぁ、昇進はしたんだけどコロナの影響で昇給がなかったんだ。責任だけが増えたって感じ？」「マジで？『奢って』って言おうと思ったけど、気の毒過ぎて言えない。ひとまず、おめでとう」「ありがとう」
"I got promoted today." "Oh, that's awesome!" "Well, I did get promoted, but because of COVID, there was no salary increase. It feels like all I got was more responsibilities." "Really? I was going to ask you to treat me, but it seems a bit insensitive given the circumstances. Congratulations anyway!" "Thanks..."