Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

2313 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 10

Meaning: uncanny, weird, threatening, horrible

Kunyomi: さむ.い すご.い すさ.まじい

Onyomi: セイ サイ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: ice

Examples

Onyomi Examples

セイエン weirdly beautiful

セイサン ghastly, gruesome, appalling, lurid

Kunyomi Examples

すごい terrible, dreadful, amazing (e.g. of strength), great (e.g. of skills), wonderful, terrific, to a great extent, vast (in numbers), awfully, very, immensely

い事になる すごいことになる to go crazy (esp. of a situation or thing), to get out of hand, to end up in an extreme state

まじい すさまじい terrific, fierce, terrible, tremendous, dreadful, awful, amazing, absurd, cutthroat, intense