Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1973 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 18

Meaning: mannerism, habit, vice, trait, fault, kink

Kunyomi: くせ くせ.に

Onyomi: ヘキ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: sickness

Examples

Onyomi Examples

クセ habit (usu. a bad one), tendency, peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, mannerism, quirk, crease, wrinkle, curl, kink

妄想 モウソウヘキ day-dreamer, fantasist

トウヘキ kleptomania

Kunyomi Examples

くせ habit (usu. a bad one), tendency, peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, mannerism, quirk, crease, wrinkle, curl, kink

くせに and yet, though, when, in spite of

悪い わるいくせ bad habit, bad habits

自傷 じしょうくせ (practice of) self-injury, (habit of) self-harm

くせに and yet, though, when, in spite of

になる くせになる to become a habit, to be addictive, to be moreish