掴 — readings, stroke count and radical

  • Non-Jōyō kanji
  • 11 strokes

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning

catch, seize, grasp, hold, arrest, capture

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • カク
Kun (native)
  • つか(む)
  • つか(まえる)
  • つか(まる)
Other languages
  • 拼音guo2
  • 拼音guai1
  • 한글gwig
  • Hán-ViệtQuắc
  • Hán-ViệtQuặc
  • Hán-ViệtQuách
  • Hán-ViệtQuốc

Basics

Strokes
11 strokes
Radical
手(て)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+63B4

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰扌国

Words using this kanji

  • 掴むつかむ「つかむ」を参照。to seize, to catch, to grasp, to grip
  • 掴みつかみgrip, having all the cards needed to form a scoring combination in one's hand
  • 掴み取るつかみとる「つかみとる」の漢字表記。to grasp, to get
  • 掴み投げつかみなげlifting throw
  • 掴ませるつかませるto let someone hold, to make someone grasp, to bribe, to slip money to
  • 掴みかかるつかみかかるto grab at, to grasp at, to clutch at
  • 掴み上げるつかみあげるto grab up

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(19 results)

Similar-looking kanji

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-8
Four Corner
5600.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3c11.6
Heisig
2354
Nelson
1985