徹
Stroke order
Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Meaning
penetrate, clear, pierce, strike home, sit up (all night)
English glosses from KANJIDIC2.
Readings
- On (Sino-Japanese)
- テツJHS
- Nanori (used in names)
- あき
- つ
- てっ
- とおる
- Other languages
- 拼音che4
- 한글cheol
- Hán-ViệtTriệt
Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.
Basics
- Strokes
- 15 strokes
- Radical
- ⺍(つかんむり)
- JIS level
- Level 1
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Unicode
U+5FB9
Components
Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.
Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰彳𰕎
Words using this kanji
- 徹底てっていなこともず、完璧に行うこと。thoroughness, completeness, consistency, thorough enforcement
- 徹夜てつや一晩寝ないで朝を迎えること。staying up all night
- 徹するてっする他のことはせずそればかりに関わる。考えや態度を曲げない。 (主に抽象的なものが)貫いてとおる。染み入る。 (主に物理的なものが)貫いてとおる。染み入る。to penetrate, to sink in, to devote oneself (to), to do intently and exclusively
- 徹底的てっていてき漏れのないように注意し、できる限りの手を尽くして行われる様子。thorough, exhaustive, complete
- 徹宵てっしょう一晩中起きていること。夜通し。徹夜。all night, without sleep
- 徹見てっけんseeing clearly, seeing without obstruction, looking into every nook and corner
- 徹甲てっこうarmor-piercing
- 徹甲弾てっこうだんarmor piercing ammunition, armour piercing ammunition
- 徹マンてつマンplaying mahjong all night
- 徹カラてつカラall-night karaoke
- 徹頭徹尾てっとうてつび始めから最後まで、ぶれることなく一貫して。thoroughly, through and through, out and out, in every way
- 徹底抗戦てっていこうせんdo-or-die resistance, resistance to the bitter end
- 徹底究明てっていきゅうめいthorough investigation, complete inquiry
- 徹夜明けてつやあけafter staying up all night
Words starting with this kanji, most common first.
Similar-looking kanji
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Lookup codes
- SKIP
1-3-12- Four Corner
2824.0- Spahn–Hadamitzky
3i12.2- Heisig
- 951
- Nelson
- 1637