駄

burdensome, pack horse, horse load, send by horse, trivial, worthless

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

タダ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

N/A

Stroke Order

14 / 14

Information

Grade:8

Strokes:14

JLPT:N1

Frequency:1500

Vocabulary

タ

Word	Reading	Meaning
下駄	ゲタ	geta; traditional Japanese wooden sandal; turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character; net; geta
下駄	ゲタ	geta; traditional Japanese wooden sandal; turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character; net; geta
下駄番	ゲタバン	toe guards on clogs; footwear doorman
中下駄	チュウゲタ	medium height geta

ダ

Word	Reading	Meaning
無駄	ムダ	futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
無駄	ムダ	futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
一駄	イチダ	horse load
駄犬	ダケン	mongrel; cur; mutt
駄作	ダサク	poor piece of work; rubbish; trash

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
駄目	だめ	no good; not serving its purpose; useless; broken; hopeless; wasted; in vain; purposeless; cannot; must not; not allowed; neutral point; intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game; no!; stop!
駄目	ダメ	no good; not serving its purpose; useless; broken; hopeless; wasted; in vain; purposeless; cannot; must not; not allowed; neutral point; intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game; no!; stop!
駄目	だーめ	no good; not serving its purpose; useless; broken; hopeless; wasted; in vain; purposeless; cannot; must not; not allowed; neutral point; intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game; no!; stop!
無駄遣い	むだづかい	waste (of money, time, etc.); squandering; frittering away
駄菓子	だがし	penny candy; cheap individually wrapped sweets

Visually Similar Kanji

These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

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tense, solid, hard, reliable, tight

cloudy weather, cloud up