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Kanji Detail for 孽 - "illegitimate, sprout, calamity"
孽
- Meaning
孽 means "illegitimate, sprout, calamity."
Illegitimate - A child born to a concubine.
Sprout - A shoot from a tree stump or root.
Calamity - A disaster; misfortune.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
evil; son of concubine; ghost
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
evil; son of concubine; ghost
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
variant of 孽[nie4]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
bastard child; the consequence of a sin; evil
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