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撥

撥 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning

brush up, reject, exclude, eliminate, bone plectrum

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ハツ
  • バチ
Kun (native)
  • は(ねる)
  • おさ(める)
Other languages
  • 拼音bo1
  • 한글bal
  • Hán-ViệtBát

Basics

Strokes
15 strokes
Radical
手(て)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+64A5

Components

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Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰扌發

Words using this kanji

  • 撥ねるはねる「はねる」を参照。to hit (e.g. with a car), to knock down, to reject, to eliminate
  • 撥ばち（バチ）三味線、琵琶などの弦楽器の弦を弾き鳴らす道具。plectrum (for a shamisen, biwa, etc.), pick, drumstick (for taiko), mallet (for a gong)
  • 撥音はつおんにおいて「ん」「ン」で表される鼻音。 三味線、太鼓などをばちで鳴らす音。syllabic nasal (in Japanese)
  • 撥水はっすい水を弾き飛ばし、吸収させないこと。water repellency
  • 撥鬢ばちびんEdo-period hairstyle for the common man (the entire head shaved just above the ear, with the remainder tied up in the back)
  • 撥皮ばちかわpick-guard (protective patch on a shamisen, etc.)
  • 撥面ばちめんpick-guard (protective patch on a biwa, etc.)
  • 撥音ばちおとにおいて「ん」「ン」で表される鼻音。 三味線、太鼓などをばちで鳴らす音。sound made by a plectrum
  • 撥鏤ばちるengraving of lacquer-stained ivory (popular during the Tang dynasty)
  • 撥油はつゆoil repellency
  • 撥音便はつおんびんnasal sound change (generation of the mora 'n', primarily from verb stems ending in 'i')
  • 撥ね箸はねばしpushing away food one does not want to eat with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)
  • 撥ね荷はねにrejected goods, sorted-out goods, jettisoned cargo
  • 撥ね釣瓶はねつるべwater bucket suspended from a weighted rod
  • 撥ねかすはねかすto splash, to splatter
  • 撥弦楽器はつげんがっきウクレレやギターなどの弦を弾いて鳴らす楽器。plucked string instrument
  • 撥ね飛ばすはねとばすto send (something) flying, to splatter, to drive (something) off
  • 撥ね付けるはねつけるto flatly refuse, to reject, to spurn

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Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-12
Four Corner
5204.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3c12.11
Nelson
2002