Kanji
N1 8 strokes Grade 8 freq #1622

assault, hit, beat, thrash

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

weapon rumata

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

hit; strike
beating to death; striking dead

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to strike; to hit
fist fight
raid; attack
to hit hard; to punch hard
hitting endlessly; beating up comprehensively
to throw a punch at; to swing at
punching and kicking
to raid; to storm
to hit with a club
to knock (a person) off his feet; to hit (something) hard

Example sentences

He went so far as to hit her.

He slapped her.

On the memo was scrawled, "have her practice floating in the water."

His answer was to strike me on the head.