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嫉 = 女 + 疾

嫉 is a Japanese kanji written with 13 strokes, listed here under the keyword “envy”. It is built from 女 (woman) and 疾 (rapidly). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 1820.

Keyword
envy
RTK frame
1820
Strokes
13
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
シツ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
そね.む, ねた.む, にく.む
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
jealous, зависть
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
嫉 jealousy

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 女 woman
  2. 疾 rapidly

How to find 嫉 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “woman” + “rapidly”. 嫉 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

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