拮 — 9 strokes / Radical「扌」
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- On
- カツ・ケツ・キツかつ・けつ・きつ · katsu · ketsu · kitsu
- Kun
- はたら.くhatara.ku
- Meaning
- to be strained
Stroke order
Origin
Hand 扌 with 吉 as phonetic: to pull against each other.
Compounds
- 拮抗きっこう
rivalry; being evenly matched
- 均衡きんこう
balance
Example
両者の勢力が拮抗している。
The two sides are evenly matched.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)