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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: 犭 王

狂

Radical

Radical: 犬

Reading: けものへん

Meaning: dog

Strokes: 3

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Examples

Examples with audio

狂気(きょうき)   madness

狂人(きょうじん)   lunatic, madman

狂言(きょうげん)   Noh farce

狂犬病(きょうけんびょう)   rabies, hydrophobia

発狂する(はっきょうする)   go mad, lose one's mind

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

狂わす(くるわす)   drive mad, disrupt [v.t.]

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

Onyomi Examples

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

狂気 (キョウキ) madness, insanity

酔狂 (スイキョウ) whim, caprice, vagary, eccentricity

躁狂 (ソウキョウ) frenzy, delirium, wild excitement, mania

Kunyomi Examples

狂う (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

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

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

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