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Kanji Detail for 毒 - "poison, toxic, harmful"

  • Meaning

    毒 means "poison, toxic, harmful."

    1. Poison - A harmful substance.

    2. Toxic - Causing harm.

    3. Cruel - Harsh; severe.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    poison; virus; venom; germ; harm; injury; spite

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    poison, venom; poisonous

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    poison; to poison; poisonous; malicious; cruel; fierce; narcotics

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    poison, venom; drug, narcotic

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

    Evil. As in evil scheme (毒計). | Harm. As in "bringing suffering to living beings" (荼毒生靈). | Anything that can harm people is called 毒. As in venomous snake (毒蛇), poison (毒藥). | Hatred. Extreme resentment is called 憤毒 (bitter hatred). | To govern. Also 亭毒 (ting-tu), meaning to nurture and transform. See Laozi. | 身毒 (Shen-tu). Name of a country. Read as Yuan-tu. This is India (天竺).
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Sentences including

  • I feel sorry for her.

  • We are sorry for his mistake.

  • What a pity !

  • I'm sorry for you.

  • She's been poisoned.

  • I feel kind of sorry for him.

  • That's too bad , please take care of yourself.

  • It's too bad she's ill.

  • I couldn't help feeling sorry for him.

  • I feel very sorry for your sister.

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