遏 — 12 strokes ／ Radical「辶」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 12 strokes ／ Radical「辶」
- On
- アツ
- Kun
- とど.める・と.める
- Meaning
- to check; to hold back
Origin
To go 辶 with 曷 as phonetic: to hold back what is moving.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 遏止あっし
checking; suppressing
- 遏めるとどめる
to stop
Example
勢いを遏めるのは難しい。
The momentum is hard to check.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)