慰
console; consolation; amusement; seduce; cheer; make sport of; comfort
15 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 1158.
Readings
- イ (on reading): 慰安婦 (いあんふ) comfort woman; 慰霊碑 (いれいひ) cenotaph
- なぐさめる (kun reading): 慰める (なぐさめる) to comfort; 慰め (なぐさめ) comfort
- なぐさむ (kun reading): 手慰み (てなぐさみ) fingering an object (in killing time); 慰み (なぐさみ) amusement
Components
- 尉
- 心
- 二 radical two
- 寸 radical inch; measure
- 小 radical small
- 尸 radical corpse; flag
- 心 radical heart
- 示 radical altar; show
Words using 慰
- 慰安婦 (いあんふ) comfort woman
- 慰霊碑 (いれいひ) cenotaph
- 慰霊 (いれい) consoling the spirits of the dead
- 自慰 (じい) masturbation
- 慰問 (いもん) visit to console someone
- 慰める (なぐさめる) to comfort
- 慰め (なぐさめ) comfort
- 恋慰め (こいなぐさめ) comforting the lovelorn
- 慰め顔 (なぐさめがお) consolatory look
- 慰めあう (なぐさめあう) to comfort one another
- 手慰み (てなぐさみ) fingering an object (in killing time)
- 慰み (なぐさみ) amusement
- 慰み者 (なぐさみもの) (person treated as a) plaything
- 慰む (なぐさむ) to feel comforted
- 慰み半分 (なぐさみはんぶん) partly for fun
40 words in all.