掎 — 11 strokes / Radical「扌」
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- On
- キき · ki
- Kun
- ひ.くhi.ku
- Meaning
- to pull back
Stroke order
Origin
Hand 扌 with 奇 as phonetic: to hold back by pulling from one side.
Compounds
- 掎角きかく
attacking from two sides at once
- 牽制けんせい
check; restraint
Example
掎角の勢いで敵を挟み撃ちにした。
They caught the enemy between two forces.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)