Kanji 臭: "stinking, ill-smelling, suspicious looking"

Stroke order

Strokes are written in the order of the numbers. The order is not decorative: it is what gives the character its balance, and it is also how handwriting search works in Japanese dictionaries.

Readings

In a kun'yomi reading, the dot separates the kanji from its okurigana: かた.る is read かたる and written 語る. A hyphen marks a bound position, like -び in 日.

At a glance

Common words with 臭

The most frequent words using this kanji, most common first, with furigana readings. Click one to open it in the reader.

• 臭くさいstinking; smelly · suspicious; fishy
• 臭しゅう-smell; stinking of · smacking of; hinting of
• 胡う散さん臭くさいsuspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious
• 生なま臭ぐさいsmelling of fish; fishy; smelling of blood; bloody · degenerate (of a monk); depraved; corrupt; fallen
• 悪あく臭しゅうbad smell; foul smell; offensive odor; stench
• 臭しゅう気きbad smell; stink
• 青あお臭くさいinexperienced; immature; green; naive · grassy-smelling; smelling of raw vegetation
• 異い臭しゅうoffensive smell; bad smell; foul smell; stench
• 体たい臭しゅうbody odor; body odour; personal odor; personal odour
• きな臭くさいsmelling burnt; smelling scorched; having a burnt smell · smelling of gunpowder (i.e. as if armed conflict is about to break out); tense; strained
• 酒さけ臭くさいreeking of liquor; smelling of alcohol
• 汗あせ臭くさいsmell(ing) of sweat

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