# 損 — Loss

Frequency rank 880 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Mid-frequency: not on every page, but regular in books and magazines.

More common than 雲 (Cloud), less common than 枚 (Flat Object Counter).

- On’yomi: そん
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 手 Hand (Kangxi 64)
- Frequency path: Level VII of XX

Fingers on the left push a mouth and shellfish on the right off a table -- fingers knocking valuable shellfish from a speaking mouth means careless loss.

In words:

- 損 そん — loss,disadvantage
- 損なう そこなう — to harm;to hurt;to injure;to damage;to fail in doing
- 損害 そんがい — damage,injury,loss

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