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究 — 7 strokes / Radical「穴」

道
8Elementary year 3 / 7 strokes / Radical「穴」
On
キュウきゅう · kyū
Kun
きわ(める)kiwa(meru)
Meaning
investigate, study deeply

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

穴 (hole) + 九 (sound) — looking all the way to the deepest part of a hole, to study thoroughly.

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onキュウきゅうkyū究明きゅうめい研究けんきゅう学究がっきゅう
Kunきわめるkiwameru究めるきわめる

Compare: 窮める・極める

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 研究けんきゅう

    research, study

  • 究明きゅうめい

    investigation, clarifying

More words with this kanji

  • 研究所けんきゅうじょ
  • 探究たんきゅう

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

虫(むし)の ことを 研究(けんきゅう)します。

I study about insects.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

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CompoundRadicalReading

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)