抉 — 7 strokes ／ Radical「扌」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 7 strokes ／ Radical「扌」
- On
- ケツ
- Kun
- えぐ.る・こじ.る・くじ.る
- Meaning
- to gouge out
Origin
Hand 扌 with 夬 as phonetic: to gouge a thing out.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 抉るえぐる
to gouge; to cut to the heart
- 剔抉てっけつ
exposing and rooting out
Example
問題の核心を抉る指摘だった。
It was a remark that cut to the heart of the problem.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)