孽
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son born of a concubine; disaster; sin; evil
- Strokes
- 19
- Radical
- 子 +17
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 孽
- Common rank
- #2,587
- Unicode
- U+5B7D
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Formation & memory
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Words with 孽
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 孽海花 | A Flower in a Sinful Sea, late-Qing novel by Jin Tianhe 金天翮[Jin1 Tian1 he2] and Zeng Pu 曾樸… | |
| 自作孽 | to bring disaster on oneself | |
| 天灾地孽 | catastrophes and unnatural phenomena; Heaven-sent warnings | |
| 孽子 | unfilial son; unworthy son; illegitimate son; concubine's son | |
| 作孽 | to sin | |
| 孽报 | bad karma | |
| 孽种 | bane of one's existence; vile spawn | |
| 罪孽 | sin; crime; wrongdoing | |
| 残渣余孽 | evil elements who have escaped eradication | |
| 造孽 | to do evil; to commit sins | |
| 余孽 | remaining evil element; surviving members (of an evil former regime); dregs (of a colonial… | |
| 孽缘 | ill-fated relationship | |
| 孽障 | evil creature | |
| 冤孽 | sin (in Buddhism); enmity leading to sin | |
| 妖孽 | evildoer | |
| 孽畜 | evil creature (multipurpose curse); evil domestic animal |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 薛 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 薛 sound part | wormwood, marsh grass; a feudal state | |
| 蘖 | stump, sprout |