邪

Glyph origin
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The semantic component suggests that this character was originally used in a place name, which  suggests to be. It was later borrowed for other meanings, the most prominent being “wrong; evil” (originally written as ).

Definitions

 * 1) wrong; evil; depraved; vicious; perverse; heterodox
 * 2) unnatural; strange
 * 3) disaster; calamity
 * 4)  unwholesome environmental factor; pathogenetic factor
 * 5)   the Middle Chinese initial of
 * 1)   the Middle Chinese initial of
 * 1)   the Middle Chinese initial of
 * 1)   the Middle Chinese initial of

Kanji

 * 1) wicked
 * 2) injustice
 * 3) wrong

Readings
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Antonyms

 * , (righteous)

Adjective

 * 1) evil, wicked
 * 2)  horizontal
 * 1)  horizontal

Hanja

 * 1) cunning, sly, crafty, artful
 * 2) dislocated, out of joint, out of step, out of line
 * 3) deceive, cheat, trick, fool, swindle
 * 4) crooked, askew, slanted