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Kanji Detail for 惑 - "to be perplexed, to confuse"

惑

  • Meaning

    惑 means "to be perplexed, to confuse."

    1. To be perplexed - Mind confused and difficult to judge.

    2. To confuse - To disturb the mind and prevent calm judgment.

  • Words using 惑

    • 疑惑 ぎわく Listen doubt; misgivings; distrust
    • 思惑 おもわく Listen expectation; anticipation; prediction
    • 迷惑 めいわく Listen trouble; bother; annoyance
    • 戸惑い とまどい Listen being at sea; losing one's bearings; confusion
    • 惑星 わくせい Listen planet; dark horse; surprise contender
    • 困惑 こんわく Listen bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment
    • 誘惑 ゆうわく Listen temptation; allurement; lure
    • 小惑星 しょうわくせい Listen asteroid

  • Four-character idioms with 惑

    • 四十不惑 しじゅうふわく Listen at age forty, one has no doubts
    • 知者不惑 ちしゃふわく Listen a wise person always follows the right course; a wise man never wavers
    • 迷惑千万 めいわくせんばん Listen great nuisance; extremely annoying; quite embarrassing
    • 迷惑至極 めいわくしごく Listen great nuisance; extremely annoying; quite embarrassing

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    • Verified meaning: to be perplexed, to confuse
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read れんにょ, わく)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 惑

    Given names 惑(わく)Listen

    Surnames 惑(れんにょ)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    beguile; delusion; perplexity

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    confuse, mislead, baffle; doubt

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to confuse; to be puzzled

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to confuse, to mislead; to doubt

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

    To doubt. (Analects) "The wise are not confused." | To be deluded. Such as 蠱惑, meaning shaking people's minds with words or things.

  • Onyomi

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    waku(ワク) ワク

  • Kunyomi

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    mado.u(まど-う) まど-う

  • Strokes

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    12 strokes

  • Radical

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    心 忄 (kokoro・shitagokoro・risshimben)

  • Related Keywords

    to be perplexed to confuse confusion perplexity bewilderment daze disorientation distraction doubt fluster muddle mystification puzzlement uncertain

Sentences including 惑

  • I'm sorry to trouble you.

  • I'm sorry to trouble you.

  • I feel abashed at my mistake.

  • He was at a loss what to do.

  • I was embarrassed.

  • She was puzzled , and she ran away from me.

  • She was embarrassed at what she had said.

  • His behavior puzzled me.

  • Don't mind about what others think.

  • I'm very sorry to have troubled you.

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