Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
hand 手 (扌龵)
Parts:
Variants:
slip out, extract, pull out, pilfer, quote, remove, omit
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N3
726 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 抜群 【バツグン】 outstanding, excellent, exceptional, distinguished, unrivaled, surpassing (e.g. beauty), beyond compare
  • 抜山蓋世 【バツザンガイセイ】 great strength and energy (of a mighty hero), Herculean strength and vitality
  • 卓抜 【タクバツ】 excellence, superiority, preeminence, prevalence
  • 警抜 【ケイバツ】 scintillating, extraordinarily excellent

Kun reading compounds

  • 抜く 【ぬく】 to pull out, to draw out, to extract, to unplug, to weed, to omit, to leave out, to go without, to skip, to do to the end, to do thoroughly, to do completely, to do severely, to let out (e.g. air from a tyre), to drain (e.g. water from a bath), to empty, to pick out, to choose, to select, to extract, to pilfer, to steal, to remove, to get rid of, to take out, to pass, to overtake, to outstrip, to get ahead of, to pierce, to break through, to go through, to cut out (a shape), to create (a pattern) by dying the surrounding area, to seize, to capture, to reduce, to scoop (a story), to take out (an opponent's stones; in go), to masturbate (of a male), to ejaculate (while masturbating), to take (a photo), to record (video)
  • 抜くべからざる 【ぬくべからざる】 deep-rooted (suspicion, etc.)
  • 抜き 【ぬき】 leaving out, omitting, skipping, dispensing with, (beating) in succession, in a row
  • 抜き打ち 【ぬきうち】 drawing a katana and attacking in the same stroke, doing (something) suddenly and without warning, doing without prior notice
  • 手抜き 【てぬき】 omitting crucial steps, cutting corners, skimping, intentional negligence, tenuki, making a move which is not a direct counter to one's opponent's last move
  • 栓抜き 【せんぬき】 bottle opener, corkscrew
  • 抜ける 【ぬける】 to come out, to fall out, to be omitted, to be missing, to escape, to come loose, to fade, to discolour, to wear a hole (e.g. clothes), to leave (e.g. a meeting), to be clear, to be transparent (e.g. of the sky), to be absentminded, to be careless, to be inattentive, to be foolish, to exit (a program loop), to go through, to pass through, to give way, to collapse, to finish a round with more than 88 points (not counting points gained from scoring combinations)
  • 抜けるような青空 【ぬけるようなあおぞら】 deep blue sky, bottomless blue sky
  • 抜かす 【ぬかす】 to omit, to leave out, to skip, to overtake, to pass, to say, to speak
  • 抜かる 【ぬかる】 to make a mistake

Readings

Japanese names:
ぬき
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ba2
Korean:
bal, pae

Spanish

  • omitir
  • echar
  • extraer
  • tirar
  • quitar
  • sacar

Portuguese

  • deslizar
  • extrato
  • arrancar
  • furtar
  • citação
  • remover
  • omitir

French

  • arracher
  • extraire
  • chaparder
  • enlever
  • omettre
  • faire une erreur
1708 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
684 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1854 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1525 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
561 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
384 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1713 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1830 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
769 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
864 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
290 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
183 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
219 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
712 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
11901P Morohashi
246 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2093 New Nelson (John Haig)
705 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
761 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1129 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1367 2001 Kanji
3c4.10 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
5404.7 Four corner code
1-40-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
629c Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
fur, hair
Parts:
fur, hair, feather, down
Kun:
On:
モウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N2
1179 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 毛 【モウ】 one-thousandth, 0.03 mm (one-thousandth of a sun), 0.01 percent (one-thousandth of a wari), 3.75 milligrams (one-thousandth of a monme), old monetary unit (0.0001 yen)
  • 毛皮 【ケガワ】 fur, skin, pelt, kanji "fur" radical
  • 不毛 【フモウ】 barren, sterile, infertile, unproductive (e.g. discussion), fruitless
  • 再生毛 【サイセイモウ】 recycled wool, reclaimed wool

Kun reading compounds

  • 毛 【け】 hair, fur, wool, down, plumage, feathers
  • 毛皮 【けがわ】 fur, skin, pelt, kanji "fur" radical
  • お毛毛 【おけけ】 pubic hair
  • 猫っ毛 【ねこっけ】 fine, soft hair

Readings

Japanese names:
めん、 も
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mao2
Korean:
mo

Spanish

  • pelaje
  • vello
  • pluma
  • cultivo
  • producción

Portuguese

  • peles
  • cabelo
  • pena
  • abaixo

French

  • pilosité
  • pelage
  • cheveux
  • plumage
  • duvet
142 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
230 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
210 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
521 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2473 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
125 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
661 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
117 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
287 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
287 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
490 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1147 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4264 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2152 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2904 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1932 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
16772 Morohashi
3453 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3013 New Nelson (John Haig)
1913 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2062 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
103 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2256 2001 Kanji
0a4.33 The Kanji Dictionary
4-4-3 SKIP code
4-4-4 SKIP code
2-1-3 SKIP code
2071.4 Four corner code
1-44-51 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6bdb Unicode hex code