Kanji
N1 14 strokes Grade 8 freq #974

rob, take by force, snatch away, dispossess, plunder

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

big dai

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

striking a batter out
recovery; rescue
usurpation; taking back
recapture; retaking
pillage; plunder
struggle (for); scramble
robbery; pillage
plundering; exploitation
(having) life-and-death power (over)

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to take (by force); to take away
scramble (for)
to plunder; to grab

Example sentences

He was robbed of his money on the street.

He robbed me of my new watch.

The man confessed that he had robbed the old woman.

My sister was robbed of her bag on her way home last night.