Kanji Detail for 拓 - "to develop, to expand, pioneering"

拓

Jōyō Kanji

JLPT N1

Meaning
拓 means "to develop, to expand, pioneering."
1. To open - To clear; to develop; to expand.
2. To push - To press with hands; also, to lift up.
3. Rubbing - Copying text carved in stone by pressing paper against it.
4. To pick up - To gather by hand.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

clear (the land); open; break up (land)

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

expand; open up; support or push

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

surname Tuo

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to develop, to expand, to open up

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

Holding with the palm. Now commonly written as 托. | Pushing with hands. Also, to expand. Such as 開拓. | Now borrowed as 搨 for rubbings. Such as 宋拓, 明拓.
Onyomi

taku(タク)
Kunyomi

hira.ku(ひら-く)
Strokes

8 strokes
Radical

手扌 (te・tehen)
Related Keywords
to develop to expand pioneering to open up to clear land to pioneer cultivate reclaim frontier settle colonize rubbing print