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Kanji Detail for 駁 - "dappled, mix, refute"

駁

  • Meaning

    駁 means "dappled, mix, refute."

    1. Dappled - Having patches of different colors; a piebald horse.

    2. Mix - To intermingle.

    3. Refute - To argue against; to contradict.

  • Four-character idioms with 駁

    • 甲論乙駁 こうろんおつばく Listen arguments pro and con

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    refutation; contradiction

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    varicolored, variegated; mixed; contradict, argue; suddenly

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    variegated; heterogeneous; to refute; to contradict; to ship by barge; a barge; a lighter (ship)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    variegated, motley; to refuse, to dispute

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

    Not pure in color. Originally referring to horses. Today applied to all things. As in 斑駁陸離 (variegated). | Things being mixed and disorderly. As in 駁雜 (heterogeneous). | Opposing another's argument and pointing out its faults. As in 辨駁 (refute), 批駁 (criticize) and the like. Also written as 駮. | Colloquially, loading and unloading cargo is called 駁. As in 駁船 (barge), 駁岸 (wharf).

  • Onyomi

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    baku(バク) バク

    haku(ハク) ハク

  • Kunyomi

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    buchi(ぶち) ぶち

    madara(まだら) まだら

    maji.ru(ま-じる) ま-じる

  • Strokes

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    14 strokes

  • Radical

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    馬 (uma・umahen)

  • Related Keywords

    dappled having patches colors piebald horse mix intermingle refute argue against contradict

Sentences including 駁

  • She rebutted his argument.

  • These facts admit of no contradiction.

  • The scientific truth of evolution is so overwhelmingly established, that it is virtually impossible to refute.

  • Far from refuting the thesis that race is to blame for lower IQ score, Lynn's data actually supports it.

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