Kanji Detail for 斥 - "reject, expel, repel"

斥

Jōyō Kanji

JLPT N1

Meaning
斥 means "reject, expel, repel."
1. Reject - To refuse to accept; to turn away.
2. Expel - To drive out; to push away.
3. Investigate - To probe or scout secretly.
4. Point - To indicate or designate.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

reject; retreat; recede; withdraw; repel; repulse

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

to scold, upbraid, accuse, reproach

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

to blame; to reprove; to reprimand; to expel; to oust; to reconnoiter; (of territory) to expand; saline marsh

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to scold, to upbraid; to accuse, to blame; to reproach

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

To reject, expel. Such as 斥逐 (to banish). | To criticize. Such as 訶斥 (to rebuke), 指斥 (to censure). | To discover, reveal. 充斥 means to appear in great numbers. From "Zuo Zhuan" (Commentary of Zuo). Now generally means things are overflowing, as in 充斥. | To scout, observe. Such as 斥候, meaning military scouts. | To expand, open up. Expanding borders is called 斥土.
Onyomi

seki(せき)
Kunyomi

shirizo.keru(しりそける)

ukaga.u(うかがう)
Strokes

5 strokes
Radical

斤 (onozukuri・ono・kin)
Related Keywords
reject expel refuse repel exclude dismiss scout investigate probe point indicate push remove banish oust eject denounce censure