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Kanji Detail for 拙 - "clumsy, poor"

拙

  • Meaning

    拙 means "clumsy, poor." Also associated with humble.

    1. Clumsy - Lacking skill; awkward; unskillful.

    2. Poor - Inferior in quality; not good.

    3. Humble - A modest way to refer to oneself or one's work.

  • Words using 拙

    • 拙速 せっそく Listen rough-and-ready; knocked-up; hasty

  • Four-character idioms with 拙

    • 巧遅拙速 こうちせっそく Listen better being rough and ready than slow and elaborate; better being brisk and sharp than slow and prudent

  • Tattoo check: 拙

    • Verified meaning: clumsy, poor
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read せつ, つたな)
    • Also carries these associations: humble

    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 拙

    Given names 拙(せつ)Listen

    Surnames 拙(つたな)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    bungling; clumsy; unskillful

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    stupid, clumsy, crude; convention

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    awkward; clumsy; dull; inelegant; (polite) my; Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    awkward, clumsy; dull, stupid

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

    Not clever. Such as 守拙, 藏拙. | Humble self-references often use 拙. Such as 拙作, 拙著.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    setsu(セツ) セツ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    tsutana.i(つたな-い) つたな-い

  • Strokes

    tip

    8 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    手 扌 (te・tehen)

  • Related Keywords

    clumsy poor humble inadequate inferior unappetizing unskillful awkward botched bungling fumbling graceless incompetent inept inexpert maladroit modest

Sentences including 拙

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