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威 = 女 + 戌

威 is a Japanese kanji written with 9 strokes, listed here under the keyword “intimidate”. It is built from 女 (woman) and 戌 (march). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 389.

Keyword
intimidate
RTK frame
389
Strokes
9
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
イ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
おど.す, おど.し, おど.かす
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
запугивать
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
威 pomp

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 女 woman
  2. 戌 march

How to find 威 without knowing its reading

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

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