音読み: ソン
訓読み: そこなう
画数: 13
部首: てへん（扌）
Meaning
Loss / Damage / Harm / Detriment
- Basic forms
- 損なう — to damage; to harm; to impair / base form
- 損ないます — damages; harms / masu form
- 損なった — damaged; harmed / ta form
- 損なって — damage and … / te form
- 損なわない — do not damage / negative
- 損なえば — if (one) damages / conditional
- 損なえ — damage it! (rare) / imperative
- Common expressions
- 健康を損なう — harm one’s health
- 信用を損なう — damage trust
- 名誉を損なう — harm one’s honor
- More
- 損なったまま — left damaged (state)
損なう（そこなう） is a godan verb ending in う. It is often used in formal contexts to mean “to damage” or “to impair,” especially with abstract nouns like health, trust, or reputation.
- 損害 — damage; injury
- 損失 — loss
- 損得 — gain and loss
- 破損 — damage
- 損ねる — to harm; to spoil
- 損なう — to injure; to fail to do
損 combines the hand radical 扌 (action/handling) with a phonetic element, yielding the idea of diminishing value through an act — physical damage or financial loss.