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Kanji Detail for 徹 - "penetrate, thorough, complete"

  • Meaning

    徹 means "penetrate, thorough, complete."

    1. Penetrate - To pass through; to pierce.

    2. Thorough - Complete in every respect; exhaustive.

    3. Consistent - Remaining the same throughout.

    4. Clear - Transparent; unobstructed.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    penetrate; clear; pierce; strike home; sit up (all night)

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    penetrate, pervade; penetrating

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    thorough; penetrating; to pervade; to pass through

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    penetrating, pervasive; to penetrate, to pass through

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To penetrate. Such as 貫徹, 透徹, meaning penetrating without obstruction. | The name for Zhou field tax. Eight families shared a well, each receiving 100 mu of land. The center was public land. They worked together, and the harvest was equally divided; the public field's produce became the tax. | To remove. (Analects) "The Three Families used the Yong hymn for removing." Like saying "to clear away." | To strip. (Book of Odes) "Strip that mulberry bark." Meaning to peel off mulberry bark.
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