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Kanji Detail for 煩 - "trouble, worry, complicated"

  • Meaning

    煩 means "trouble, worry, complicated."

    1. Trouble - Difficulty; distress.

    2. Worry - Anxiety; concern.

    3. Complicated - Complex; involved.

    4. Annoying - Causing irritation; bothersome.

  • Words using

    • 煩雑 はんざつ Listen complex; intricate; complicated
    • 煩わしい わずらわしい Listen troublesome; annoying; complicated
    • 煩う わずらう Listen to worry (about); to be concerned (about); to have trouble doing ...
  • Four-character idioms with

    • 懊悩煩悶 おうのうはんもん Listen anguish; agony
    • 煩悶懊悩 はんもんおうのう Listen anguish; agony
    • 百八煩悩 ひゃくはちぼんのう Listen the 108 kleshas; the 108 afflictions
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    • Verified meaning: trouble, worry, complicated
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    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.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    anxiety; trouble; worry; pain; ill; annoy; nuisance; irksome

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    bother, vex, trouble; troublesome

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to feel vexed; to bother; to trouble; superfluous and confusing; edgy

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to bother, to trouble, to vex

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

    Not simple. Same as 繁. | To trouble. As in troubling someone with a task is called 敬煩. | Being overwhelmed by too many matters is called 煩. As in 煩懣 (vexed), 煩悶 (annoyed).
  • Onyomi

    tip
  • Kunyomi

    tip
  • Strokes

    tip
  • Radical

    tip
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