← Back

痴

stupid
Stroke count: 13

Readings

On readingチ
Kun readingし.れる、おろか

Meanings

  1. stupidRtK
    彼は方向音痴だ。He has no sense of direction.tatoeba
    彼は酒を飲むと、息子の愚痴をこぼすのがお決まりだ。He never drinks without complaining about his son.tatoeba
  2. foolish
  1. foolishness
  2. fool
  3. moha (ignorance, folly)

Popular Usage

愚痴

Radicals and components

Components
How it's built
痴
  • →
  • →
    • →
      • →
        • →
    • →

Mnemonic (RtK)

ⓘ

sickness · hospital · know · dart · drop (丶) · heavens · mouth (口)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1814

Compound words

彼は私にあうといつも自分の奥さんの愚痴を言う。
He never sees me without complaining about his wife.tatoeba
一日中、愚痴をこぼしてばかりいる。
He does nothing but complain all day long.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.

ただの愚痴なんで真剣に受けとめる必要はないですよ
ただのぐちなんでしんけんにうけとめるひつようはないですよIt's just complaining, so you don't need to take it too seriously.
痴情のもつれってやつか
ちじょうのもつれってやつかCould it be a tangled affair of passion?
母は、脳血栓の後遺症で、老人性痴呆症になり、一年前から入院中です。
ははは、のうけっせんのこういしょうで、ろうじんせいちほうしょうになり、いちねんまえからにゅういんちゅうです。After a cerebral thrombosis my mother developed senile dementia and has been in hospital for a year.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

13 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 痴

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step