Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1425 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 7

Meaning: lunatic, insane, crazy, confuse

Kunyomi: くる.う くる.おしい くるお.しい

Onyomi: キョウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: けものへん

Meaning: dog

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

気(きょうき)   madness

人(きょうじん)   lunatic, madman

言(きょうげん)   Noh farce

犬病(きょうけんびょう)   rabies, hydrophobia

する(はっきょうする)   go mad, lose one's mind

う(くるう)   go mad, get out of order [v.i.]

わす(くるわす)   drive mad, disrupt [v.t.]

おしい(くるおしい)   mad, crazy, distraught [adj.]

Onyomi Examples

キョウ (some type of) enthusiast, someone possessed of a (certain kind of) mental abnormality

キョウキ madness, insanity

スイキョウ whim, vagary, capriciousness, eccentricity

ソウキョウ frenzy, delirium, wild excitement, mania

Kunyomi Examples

くるう to go mad, to lose one's mind, to go crazy, to go insane, to get out of order, to go amiss, to malfunction, to become imprecise, to go wrong (of a plan or expectation, etc.), to fall through, to get mixed up, to go crazy (over someone or something), to get enthusiastic, to go wild

おしい くるおしい mad (with grief, love, etc.), crazy, out of one's mind, on the verge of insanity

おしい くるおしい mad (with grief, love, etc.), crazy, out of one's mind, on the verge of insanity