擱 — 17 strokes ／ Radical「扌」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 17 strokes ／ Radical「扌」
- On
- カク
- Kun
- お.く
- Meaning
- to lay down; to run aground
Origin
Hand 扌 with 閣 as phonetic: to set a thing down and leave it.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 擱坐かくざ
running aground; being stuck
- 擱筆かくひつ
laying down the pen; finishing writing
Example
紙幅も尽きたのでここで擱筆する。
Space runs short, so I lay down my pen here.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)