Kanji Detail for 擲 - "to throw, to discard, to hit"

擲

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning

擲 means "to throw, to discard, to hit."
1. Throw - To hurl; to fling.
2. Discard - To cast away.
3. Hit - To strike; to punch (Japanese usage).
Four-character idioms with 擲
- 一擲千金いってきせんきん being lavish with one's money; spending a huge sum of money at once on a treat
- 乾坤一擲けんこんいってき stake all (on something); play for all or nothing; throwing all into a task
Dictionary Citations

The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

hit; resign

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

throw (down), hurl, cast, fling

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

to toss; to throw dice; Taiwan pr. [zhi2]

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to throw, to hurl, to fling, to cast

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

To throw. Such as 拋擲. Also, bestowing gifts is 擲下, commonly used in letters.
Onyomi

chaku(チャク)

jaku(ジャク)

teki(テキ)
Kunyomi

nageu.tsu(なげうつ)

nagu.ru(なぐ-る)
Strokes

19 strokes
Radical

手扌 (te・tehen)
Related Keywords

to throw to discard to hit to hurl to fling to toss

「刀の投擲の練習？」「すっぽ抜けただけです」
"Practising sword throwing?" "It just slipped out of my hands."
投擲用のナイフが男たちの首筋に深々と突き刺さっていた。
Throwing knives were stuck deep into the men's necks.
乾坤一擲の大勝負。情けないけどこれが見事空振りに終わったんだなあ。
It was all-or-nothing and we struck out spectacularly.