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Kanji Detail for 拂 - "pay, brush, clear"
拂
- Meaning
拂 means "pay, brush, clear."
Pay - To give money in exchange.
Brush - To sweep away; to dust.
Oppose - To go against.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
clear out; sweep away
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
shake off, brush away; dust
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
old variant of 弼[bi4]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to shake off, to brush away; dust
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To brush away. Wanting to remove dust by sweeping past. (Lu Sidao's Rhapsody) "Trimming and polishing, increasing its value." Now, recommending someone is 拂拭, 照拂, based on this. | Sweeping past at an angle is 拂. Such as 春風拂檻. | A dusting tool is called 拂子. | To go against. Such as 不忍過拂.
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