Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1634 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 8

Meaning: suspicious, mystery, apparition

Kunyomi: あや.しい あや.しむ

Onyomi: カイ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: りっしんべん

Meaning: heart

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

獣(かいじゅう)   monster

物(かいぶつ)   monster

談(かいだん)   ghost story

(ようかい)   monstrous creature, hobgoblin

事件(かいじけん)   unsolved mystery

奇な(かいきな)   bizarre, strange

我(けが)   injury

しい(あやしい)   suspicious, dubious, doubtful

しむ(あやしむ)   suspect [v.t.]

Onyomi Examples

カイ mystery, wonder

カイジュウ monster

奇々 キキカイカイ very strange, bizarre, weird, mysterious

夜道 ヤドウカイ folk monster who wanders at night injuring and kidnapping people

ケガ injury, wound, mistake, accident, loss

けが人 ケガニン wounded person, injured person

モッケ unexpected

物の モノノケ (vengeful) ghost, specter, spectre

Kunyomi Examples

しい あやしい suspicious, dubious, questionable, dodgy, shady, fishy, doubtful, unsure, uncertain, unlikely, implausible, untrustworthy, unreliable, clumsy, awkward, shaky, poor, strange, weird, eerie, spooky, uncanny, ominous (e.g. weather), threatening, dangerous (e.g. financial situation), uncertain, suspicious (of a potential amorous relation), mysterious, bewitching, alluring, enticing, enchanting

しい手つきで あやしいてつきで clumsily, with clumsy hands

しむ あやしむ to suspect