Hanja Analyzer
虐

虐 — hak

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
모질 학
Romanization
hak
English
cruel, harsh, oppressive
Mandarin
nüè
Japanese on'yomi
ギャク
Japanese kun'yomi
しいた.げる
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,464 of 2,500
Strokes
9
Radical
虍 (141, 3 residual)
Unicode
U+8650

How 虐 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 虐 as a ideographic compound involving 虎, 人.

Korean example words with 虐

  • 가학加虐 Korean gloss: 남을 못살게 굶
  • 탐학貪虐 Korean gloss: 탐욕이 많고 포학함
  • 포학暴虐 Korean gloss: 몹시 잔인하고 난폭함
  • 학정虐政 Korean gloss: 포학하고 가혹한 정치
  • 침학侵虐 Korean gloss: 침범하여 포학하게 행동함
  • 잔학하다殘虐 Korean gloss: 잔인하고 포학하다
  • 자학하다自虐 Korean gloss: 자기를 스스로 학대하다
  • 학민하다虐民 Korean gloss: 백성에게 가혹하게 대하다
  • 학살되다虐殺 Korean gloss: 가혹하게 마구 죽임을 당하다
  • 찬학하다簒虐 Korean gloss: 임금을 죽이고 그 자리를 빼앗다
  • 학대하다虐待 Korean gloss: 몹시 괴롭히거나 가혹하게 대우하다
  • 잔학성殘虐性 Korean gloss: 잔인하고 포학한 성질

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 虐

  • 虐殺ぎゃくさつ slaughter; massacre
  • 虐待ぎゃくたい abuse; ill-treatment; maltreatment
  • 残虐ざんぎゃく cruel; brutal; savage
  • 暴虐ぼうぎゃく tyranny; atrocity
  • 自虐じぎゃく self-torture; masochism; inflicting damage to oneself
  • 虐げるしいたげる to oppress; to persecute; to tyrannize
  • 虐めいじめ bullying; teasing
  • 加虐かぎゃく causing pain; sadism
  • 苛虐かぎゃく cruel treatment
  • 虐政ぎゃくせい tyranny; despotism
  • 虐使ぎゃくし driving someone too hard
  • 賊虐ぞくぎゃく damage and ill-treatment

Other hanja read “학”

Other hanja with radical 虍

Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences