guilt, sin, crime, fault
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
二人はそこで笑いながら、罪悪感なしにポテトを食べました——その時だけ。
Futari wa soko de warainagara, zaiakukan nashi ni poteto o tabemashita — sono toki dake.
The two of them sat there, laughing, eating fries without any guilt — just this once.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-09-07 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0