威

might; intimidate; dignity; majesty; menace; threaten

9 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 1103.

Readings

• イ (on reading): 脅威 (きょうい) threat; 権威 (けんい) authority
• おどす (kun reading): 糸威 (いとおどし) binding of plates with colored laces (in traditional suits of armor); 鬼面人を威す (きめんひとをおどす) to threaten by outward appearance
• おどし (kun reading)
• おどかす (kun reading)

Components

• 戍
• 女
• ノ radical slash, katakana no
• 厂 radical cliff
• 女 radical woman
• 戈 radical halberd

Kanji containing 威

• 縅 the thread/braid (of armour)
• 鰄 a type of fish

Words using 威

• 脅威 (きょうい) threat
• 権威 (けんい) authority
• 威力 (いりょく) power
• 威嚇 (いかく) threat
• 威 (い) power
• 糸威 (いとおどし) binding of plates with colored laces (in traditional suits of armor)
• 鬼面人を威す (きめんひとをおどす) to threaten by outward appearance
• 白糸威 (しろいとおどし) binding of plates with white laces (in traditional suits of armor)
• 革威 (かわおどし) binding of plates with leather laces (in traditional suits of armor)
• 御稜威 (みいつ) power (of the Emperor)
• 稜威言別 (いつのことわき) Notes on the Songs of the Kojiki and the Nihonshoki (by Tachibana Moribe, 1850)
• 稜威道別 (いつのちわき) The Parting Ways of Power (by Tachibana Moribe, 1844)

89 words in all.

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