殄 — 9 strokes ／ Radical「歹」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 9 strokes ／ Radical「歹」
- On
- テン
- Kun
- た.つ・つき.る・つく.す
- Meaning
- to exterminate
Origin
歹 "bones" with 㐱 as phonetic: to cut off entirely.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 殄滅てんめつ
utter destruction
- 殄つたつ
to cut off; to exterminate
Example
旧習を殄って新たに始める。
They cut off the old ways and begin anew.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)