剿 — 13 strokes ／ Radical「刂」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 13 strokes ／ Radical「刂」
- On
- ソウ・ショウ
- Kun
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- Meaning
- to wipe out
Origin
Blade 刂 with 巢 as phonetic: to strike an enemy down and destroy them.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 剿滅そうめつ
annihilation
- 剿討そうとう
subjugation
Example
山中の賊徒の剿滅にあたった。
They were charged with wiping out the bandits in the mountains.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)