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Kanji Detail for 攘 - "expel, steal, yield, disturb"

攘

  • Meaning

    攘 means "expel, steal, yield, disturb."

    1. Expel - To drive away; to brush aside.

    2. Steal - To pilfer; to take.

    3. Yield - To cede.

    4. Disturb - To disorder; to confuse.

  • Four-character idioms with 攘

    • 勤王攘夷 きんのうじょうい Listen loyalty to the emperor and expulsion of the foreigners
    • 尊皇攘夷 そんのうじょうい Listen revere the Emperor, expel the (Western) barbarians
    • 竜攘虎搏 りゅうじょうこはく Listen fierce fighting

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    chase away; steal

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    seize, take by force; repel

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    (literary) to push up one's sleeves; (literary) to reject; to resist; (literary) to seize; to steal; (literary) to perturb; Taiwan pr. [rang2]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to usurp, to seize; to repel

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

    To steal. Taking something that comes of its own accord is 攘. (Analects) "His father stole a sheep." | To repel. To push away. Such as 尊王攘夷. | 擾亂: Chaos. Such as 擾攘.

  • Onyomi

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    joh(ジョウ) ジョウ

  • Kunyomi

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    hara.u(はら-う) はら-う

    nusu.mu(ぬす-む) ぬす-む

  • Strokes

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    21 strokes

  • Radical

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    手 扌 (te・tehen)

  • Related Keywords

    expel drive brush aside steal pilfer take yield cede disturb disorder confuse

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