Kanji Detail for 撥 - "flip, govern, remove, plectrum"

撥

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
撥 means "flip, govern, remove, plectrum."
1. Flip - To spring up; to deflect.
2. Govern - To manage; to put in order.
3. Remove - To eliminate.
4. Plectrum - A device for plucking stringed instruments.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

brush up; reject; exclude; eliminate; bone plectrum

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

move; dispel; distribute; plectrum, play stringed instrument

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate; to set aside (money); to poke (the fire); to pluck (a string instrument); to turn round; classifier: group, batch

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to stir, to move, to distribute, to allocate

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

To remove. Such as 撥開雲霧. | To shift. Such as 撥亂反正. See (Gongyang Commentary). | To dispatch. Such as 支撥, 調撥. Also 挑撥, meaning to incite.
Onyomi

bachi(ばち)

hatsu(はつ)
Kunyomi

ha.neru(はねる)

osa.meru(おさめる)
Strokes

16 strokes
Radical

手扌 (te・tehen)
Related Keywords
flip spring deflect govern manage put order remove eliminate plectrum device plucking stringed instruments