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Kanji Detail for 衰 - "decline, weaken, fade"

衰

  • Meaning

    衰 means "decline, weaken, fade."

    1. To decline - To lose power or strength; to weaken.

    2. Mourning clothes - Funeral garments.

    3. To reduce - To decrease; to diminish; to differ.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    decline; wane; weaken

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    decline, falter, decrease; weaken

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    variant of 縗|缞[cui1]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    weak, feeble; to decline, to falter

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

    The opposite of flourishing. Anything that gradually diminishes from a flourishing state is called 衰. Such as 衰微 (decline), 衰弱 (weaken). | Gradual decrease. Descending by fixed levels in succession. Such as 等衰 (gradations), meaning ranks. Appears in Zuo Zhuan. | Mourning garments. Made of raw hemp cloth. Those with unhemmed sides and bottom edges are called 斬衰 (coarse mourning). Made of processed hemp cloth. Those with hemmed sides and bottom edges are called 齊衰 (secondary mourning). Originally written as 縗.
  • Onyomitip

    sai(さい) さい

    shi(し) し

    sui(すい) すい

  • Kunyomitip

    otoro.eru(おとろえる) おとろえる

  • Strokestip

    10 strokes

  • Radicaltip

    衣 衤 (koromo・koromohen)

  • Related Keywords
    decline weaken decay weakness downfall senility fade wane diminish deteriorate ebb dwindle rise and fall mourning

Sentences including 衰

  • He declined in health.

  • He died of old age two years ago.

  • Do you ever feel like you're running down?

  • He was wasted away by illness.

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