翦 — 15 strokes ／ Radical「羽」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 15 strokes ／ Radical「羽」
- On
- セン
- Kun
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- Meaning
- to clip; to cut off
Origin
Feather 羽 with 前 as phonetic: to trim feathers even, hence to clip away.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 翦除せんじょ
rooting out
- 翦るきる
to clip
Example
害を翦除して安んじる。
They root out the harm and set things at ease.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)