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抉 — 7 strokes ／ Radical「扌」

道
1University / general (hardest) ／ 7 strokes ／ Radical「扌」
On
ケツけつ · ketsu
Kun
えぐ.る・こじ.る・くじ.るegu.ru · koji.ru · kuji.ru
Meaning
to gouge out

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Hand 扌 with 夬 as phonetic: to gouge a thing out.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 抉るえぐる

    to gouge; to cut to the heart

  • 剔抉てっけつ

    exposing and rooting out

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

問題(もんだい)の核心(かくしん)を抉(えぐ)る指摘(してき)だった。

It was a remark that cut to the heart of the problem.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

剔抉抉剔to gou…扎to pri…扛to lif…扞to war…扠well…扨well…孑alone孒mosqui…夬to dec…刔to gou…拮to be…
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 扌Map of reading ケツAll maps

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