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Kanji Detail for 抜 - "to pull out"

抜

  • Meaning

    抜 means "to pull out." Also associated with to capture, to excel.

    1. To pull out - To extract; to draw out; to remove.

    2. To capture - To conquer; to take by force.

    3. To excel - To stand out; to surpass.

    4. To skip - To leave out; to omit; to miss.

    5. To fail - To overlook important things and fail; to be careless.

  • Words using 抜

    • 抜き ぬき Listen leaving out; omitting; skipping
    • 抜本的 ばっぽんてき Listen drastic; radical
    • 選抜 せんばつ Listen selection; choice; picking out
    • 抜群 ばつぐん Listen outstanding; excellent; exceptional
    • 骨抜き ほねぬき Listen boning (fish or meat); deboning; watering down (a plan, bill, etc.)
    • 手抜き てぬき Listen omitting crucial steps; cutting corners; skimping
    • 生え抜き はえぬき Listen native-born; trueborn; (belonging) from the start (to a group, organization, etc.)
    • 目抜き めぬき Listen principal; main; important

  • Four-character idioms with 抜

    • 堅忍不抜 けんにんふばつ Listen indomitable perseverance; invincible fortitude
    • 抜山蓋世 ばつざんがいせい Listen great strength and energy (of a mighty hero); Herculean strength and vitality
    • 抜本塞源 ばっぽんそくげん Listen eradication of (sources of) evil; laying the ax to the root of evil
    • 抜苦与楽 ばっくよらく Listen a Buddha or Bodhisattva taking away suffering and conferring peace
    • 斬新奇抜 ざんしんきばつ Listen novel; unconventional; cutting-edge
    • 確固不抜 かっこふばつ Listen determined; steadfast; unswerving

  • Tattoo check: 抜

    • Verified meaning: to pull out
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: to capture, to excel

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    slip out; extract; pull out; pilfer; quote; remove; omit

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    uproot, pull out

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    Japanese variant of 拔[ba2]

  • Onyomi

    tip

    batsu(バツ) バツ

    hai(ハイ) ハイ

    hatsu(ハツ) ハツ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    nu.kasu(ぬ-かす) ぬ-かす

    nu.ki(ぬき) ぬき

    nu.ku(ぬ-く) ぬ-く

    nuka.ru(ぬ-かる) ぬ-かる

    nukeru(ぬ-ける) ぬ-ける

  • Strokes

    tip

    7 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    手 扌 (te・tehen)

  • Related Keywords

    to pull out to capture to excel to fail to skip extract surpass omit remove pluck draw outperform outstanding select conquer leave out

Sentences including 抜

  • John passed among the crowd.

  • We passed through a town at night.

  • She cut a picture out of the book.

  • He's an absolute fool.

  • You are by far the best swimmer of us all.

  • I can't get rid of a bad cold.

  • He finally got ahead of the rest of class.

  • She stands out from the rest.

  • I went through the room into the garden.

  • A lot of my hair has fallen out.

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