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Kanji Detail for 激 - "intense, violent"

激

  • Meaning

    激 means "intense, violent." Also associated with to inspire.

    1. Intense - Very strong; fierce.

    2. Violent - Forceful; turbulent.

    3. Inspire - To stir up; to motivate.

  • Words using 激

    • 過激 かげき Listen extreme (measure, idea, etc.); radical; violent (language)
    • 激戦 げきせん Listen fierce battle; hard-fought battle; hot contest
    • 激動 げきどう Listen violent shock; agitation; turbulence
    • 激化 げきか Listen intensification; aggravation
    • 感激 かんげき Listen deep emotion; impression; inspiration
    • 激励 げきれい Listen encouragement; spurring (on); cheering (on)
    • 激論 げきろん Listen heated argument; heated discussion; heated debate
    • 激減 げきげん Listen dramatic decrease; sharp drop; sudden fall

  • Four-character idioms with 激

    • 叱咤激励 しったげきれい Listen giving a loud pep talk; encouraging (someone) strongly in a loud voice
    • 恐懼感激 きょうくかんげき Listen being struck with awe; deeply moved with awe
    • 鼓舞激励 こぶげきれい Listen encouragement

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    • Verified meaning: intense, violent
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read じ)
    • Also carries these associations: to inspire

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 激

    Surnames 激(じ)Listen

  • 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).

  • Onyomi

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    geki(ゲキ) ゲキ

  • Kunyomi

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    hage.shii(はげ-しい) はげ-しい

  • Strokes

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    16 strokes

  • Radical

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    水 氵 氺 (mizu・sanzui・shitamizu)

  • Related Keywords

    intense violent inspire boiling rising exciting energizing severe strict stirring motivating fierce drastic dynamic explosive extreme fervent forceful heated passionate powerful raging strong turbulent

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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