Kanji
N1 11 strokes Grade 5 freq #403

counter for bows & stringed instruments, stretch, spread, put up (tent)

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

bow yumi

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

claim; insistence
tension; strain
business trip; official trip
expansion; extension
expansion; swelling
branch office; agency
exaggeration
originator; ringleader

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

do your best; go for it
in the style of (esp. literary, artistic, etc. works); reminiscent of
to stick; to paste
tenacity; endurance
stretching a rope around; roping off
prop; strut
to pull; to draw
paper patch attached to something; paper backing
watch; guard
to persevere; to persist

Example sentences

He makes out that he has a right to say so.

My father insisted I should go to see the place.

The student became very nervous with the teacher watching him.

I'm always under pressure.