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Kanji Detail for 霧 - "mist, fog"

霧

  • Meaning

    霧 means "mist, fog." Also associated with blurry.

    1. Mist - Fine water droplets floating in the air.

    2. Fog-like - Metaphors for blurry, dark, fine, scattered, or disappearing things.

  • Words using 霧

    • 霧雨 きりさめ Listen drizzle; light rain

  • Four-character idioms with 霧

    • 雲散霧消 うんさんむしょう Listen vanishing like mist
    • 五里霧中 ごりむちゅう Listen totally at a loss; lose one's bearings; in a maze
    • 雲消霧散 うんしょうむさん Listen vanishing like mist
    • 雲集霧散 うんしゅうむさん Listen (many things) gathering like clouds and vanishing like mist; swarming and scattering

  • Tattoo check: 霧

    • Verified meaning: mist, fog
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read きり)
    • Also carries these associations: blurry

    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 霧

    Given names 霧(きり)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    fog; mist

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    fog, mist, vapor, fine spray

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    fog; mist; CL:場|场[chang2],陣|阵[zhen4]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    fog, mist, vapor, fine spray

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

    Water vapor near the ground surface that condenses into tiny water droplets when it meets cold air. Same principle as clouds. Far away it is cloud, nearby it is fog.

  • Onyomi

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    boh(ボウ) ボウ

    bu(ブ) ブ

    mu(ム) ム

  • Kunyomi

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    kiri(きり) きり

  • Strokes

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    19 strokes

  • Radical

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    雨 (ame・amekammuri・amakammuri)

  • Related Keywords

    mist fog blurry fading scattering haze cloud condensation damp dew drizzle humidity moisture overcast vapor visibility

Sentences including 霧

  • We could see nothing but fog.

  • I could see nothing but fog.

  • The heavy fog made it impossible for us to see anything in front of us.

  • London is famous for its fog.

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