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Kanji Detail for 激 - "intense, fierce, inspire"

激

  • Meaning

    激 means "intense, fierce, inspire."

    1. Intense - Very strong; fierce.

    2. Violent - Forceful; turbulent.

    3. Inspire - To stir up; to motivate.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    violent; get excited; enraged; chafe; incite

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    arouse, excite, incite; quickly

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to arouse; to incite; to excite; to stimulate; sharp; fierce; violent

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to arouse, to incite; acute, sharp; fierce, violent

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

    To obstruct water flow and make it surge. (Mencius) "When blocked and channeled, it can be made to flow uphill." | Whenever obstruction arouses spirit, it is called 激. As in 激厲 (to stimulate), 激揚 (to encourage), both meaning being good at using people to rouse their ambition. | Rapid and urgent. As in 迅激 (swift and urgent). | Speech that is too direct is called 激切 (blunt). | Being moved to action is called 感激 (gratitude). | Going against the crowd with different views is also called 激. As in 詭激 (unconventional), 矯激 (extreme).
  • Onyomitip

    geki(げき) げき

  • Kunyomitip

    hage.masu(はげます) はげます

    hage.shii(はげしい) はげしい

  • Strokestip

    16 strokes

  • Radicaltip

    水 氵 氺 (mizu・sanzui・shitamizu)

  • Related Keywords
    intense fierce violent severe extreme strong rapid turbulent inspire stir motivate excite encourage passionate fervent vehement impetuous tempestuous furious

Sentences including 激

  • The rain fell even harder.

  • The wind blew hard.

  • He went mad when he heard the story.

  • We had a heavy rainfall last night.

  • The baseball game was canceled because of the heavy rain.

  • It was raining heavily when i got up this morning.

  • It is raining hard now.

  • He left the room in a rage.

  • It's raining cats and dogs.

  • It poured for three days.

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