Kanji
N1 8 strokes Grade 8 freq #1526

clear (the land), open, break up (land)

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

hand te

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

reclamation (e.g. of wasteland); cultivation
colonization; colonisation
land reclamation (from sea)
pioneer; settler
rubbing; rubbed copy
undeveloped (area); unexplored (field of study)
Japanese colonists of Manchuria and Inner Mongolia
(making a) print with a female body
settlement of the American frontier; settlement of the Old West
wet rubbing; ink rubbing technique using moistened paper

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

Catan (board game); The Settlers of Catan
to open (e.g. path); to clear (the way)
to open up unbroken land

Example sentences

The newcomers cultivated the immense wilderness.

We lack an incentive for pursuing the eastern market.

Pioneer men and women had a hard life, and so did their children.

The pioneers met with many dangers.