Kanji N2

毒: poison, virus, venom

毒 is a JLPT N2 kanji meaning poison, virus, venom, written with 8 strokes. It is read ドク (on), and has no common kun reading. Children in Japan learn it in grade 5. You will see it in 毒 (どく, poison) and 消毒 (しょうどく, disinfection).

毒

Meanings

  • poison
  • virus
  • venom
  • germ
  • harm
  • injury
  • spite
Strokes8
JLPT levelN2
School gradeGrade 5
Frequency#1419 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ドク

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • None in common use

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 毒

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 毒どく

    poison; toxicant; venom

    JLPT N3
  • 消毒しょうどく

    disinfection; sterilization; sterilisation

    JLPT N2
  • 気の毒きのどく

    pitiful; unfortunate; poor; miserable; wretched

    JLPT N3
  • 中毒ちゅうどく

    poisoning

    JLPT N1
  • 毒性どくせい

    toxicity; virulence

  • 有毒ゆうどく

    poisonous; toxic

  • 毒ガスどくガス

    poison gas

  • 食中毒しょくちゅうどく

    food poisoning

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.