Kanji Detail for 仄 - "lean, humble, side, faint, hint"

仄

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning

仄 means "lean, humble, side, faint, hint."
1. Lean - To tilt; to incline.
2. Humble - Lowly; base.
3. Side - Beside; nearby.
4. Faint - Dim; slight; subtle.
5. Hint - To suggest indirectly.
Dictionary Citations

The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

be seen dimly; suggest; intimate; faint; stupid; hint

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

slanting, oblique; oblique tones

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

to tilt; narrow; uneasy; oblique tones (in Chinese poetry)

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

slanting, oblique; oblique tones

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

Inclined; tilted. Such as 反仄. Also written as 側. | Narrow. Such as 偪仄, 仄陋. | The four tones of characters are divided into level (平) and oblique (仄). Level tone is 平. Rising, departing, and entering tones are 仄.
Onyomi

soku(ソク)
Kunyomi

hono(ほの)

hono.ka(ほの-か)

hono.mekasu(ほの-めかす)

hono.meku(ほの-めく)

katamu.ku(かたむ-く)
Strokes

4 strokes
Radical

人亻 (hito・nimben・hitogashira・hitoyane)
Related Keywords

lean tilt incline humble lowly base side beside nearby faint dim slight subtle hint suggest

外の陽光が眩い分、屋敷の中は仄暗かった。
It was as gloomy inside the mansion as the sunlight was dazzling outside.
教授がいつも不穏な未来を仄めかしてくるよ。
The professor is always hinting at a disturbing future.
脚韻と平仄が漢詩の基本的ルールとなっています。
Rhyme and meter form the essential rules of Chinese poetry.
外国人を悩ますもう一つの、多くの日本人のもつ傾向は、「すべての」「あらゆる」というような言葉を使ったり、仄めかしたりして、あまりにも一般的であり、あまりにも広がりのある表現をする点にある。
Another tendency of many Japanese speakers that bothers foreigners is to make statements that are too general and too broad by using or implying words like "all" and "every".