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損

Loss
Stroke count: 13

Readings

On readingソン
Kun readingそこ.なう、そこ.ねる

Verbs with «損»

損なう破損する損する損傷する

Meanings

  1. loss
    彼は損失の責任をとって、その仕事を辞任した。He resigned from the job to take the responsibility for the loss.tatoeba
    彼は損害を受けた。He suffered great losses.tatoeba
  2. damageRtK
  3. decrease
  4. harm
  5. injure
  1. unprofitable
  2. disadvantage

Popular Usage

損得

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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finger · fingers · employee · mouth (口) · shellfish · clam · oyster · eye (目) · animal legs (儿) · eight (八)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 719

Compound words

彼は遅く起きた、その結果、バスに乗り損なった。
He got up late, so he missed the bus.tatoeba
彼は他人の機嫌を損ねないように気をつけている。
He is chary of offending people.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

がっかりした、とても損した
がっかりした、とてもそんしたWhat a letdown — a real waste.
僕は二千八百円の損害だ。と、
ぼくはにせんはちひゃくえんのそんがいだ。と、I suffered a loss of 2,800 yen.
いらぬ反感を買っても損なだけ
いらぬはんかんをかってもそんなだけBuying unnecessary hostility is just a loss

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

13 strokes

Loss; damage. 扌 (hand) + 員 — something lost from one's hands. 損失 — loss.

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