Kanji Detail for 覿 - "meet, show"

覿

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning

覿 means "meet, show."
1. Meet - To see; to have an audience with.
2. Show - To display; to reveal.
Four-character idioms with 覿
- 効果覿面こうかてきめん having an immediate effect; taking immediate effect
- 因果覿面いんがてきめん the swiftness of retributive justice
- 天罰覿面てんばつてきめん the certainty of divine punishment; Swift is Heaven's vengeance
Dictionary Citations

The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

meet; see

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

see; interview; be admitted to audience

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

face to face

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

To see. Meaning meeting with gifts. Therefore upon first meeting today, there is 覿敬 (respectful meeting gift).
Onyomi

teki(テキ)
Kunyomi

a.u(あ-う)
Strokes

22 strokes
Radical

見 (miru)
Related Keywords

meet see audience show display reveal

天網恢恢疎にして漏らさずの言葉通り、天罰覿面だ。
They say fate will catch up with you. That was God's way of punishing him.
この辺の意地悪婆さんが雷に打たれて頓死したらしい。まさに天罰覿面だとうちの母さんが言う。
It seems the mean old woman that lived around here was struck by lightning and suddenly died. My mother says it's truly a case of the swiftness of Heaven's vengeance.