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涜 = 売 + 水

涜 is a Japanese kanji written with 10 strokes, listed here under the keyword “blaspheme”. It is built from 売 (sell) and 水 (water). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 2393.

Keyword
blaspheme
RTK frame
2393
Strokes
10
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
トク, トウ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
けが.す, けが.れ, みぞ
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
defile, богохульство
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
涜 ditch

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 売 sell
  2. 水 water

How to find 涜 without knowing its reading

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

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