損

音読おんよみ: ソン

訓読くんよみ: そこなう

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部首ぶしゅ: 扌（てへん）

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.

  • 損害そんがい — damage; injury
  • 損失そんしつ — loss
  • 損得そんとく — gain and loss
  • 破損はそん — damage
  • 損そこねる — to harm; to spoil
  • 損そこなう — 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.

時間じかんを 損そんしたくないので、早はやめに 出発しゅっぱつします。
I don’t want to waste time, so I’ll leave early.

利益りえきよりも 信頼しんらいを 損そこなうほうが 問題もんだいです。
Losing trust is a bigger issue than losing profit.

害
Creates
損害そんがい — damage; injury
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