Kanji
N3 7 strokes Grade 8 freq #726

slip out, extract, pull out, pilfer, quote

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)

drastic; radical
selection; choice
outstanding; excellent
(very) unusual; unconventional
height above sea level
extract; excerpt

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

leaving out; omitting
boning (fish or meat); deboning
omitting crucial steps; cutting corners
to slip out; to sneak away
native-born; trueborn
principal; main
clipping (of newspaper article, etc.); cutting
drawing a katana and attacking in the same stroke
byway; bypath
taking a breather; relaxation

Example sentences

Thank to a fundamental restructuring, our surplus has swelled threefold.

The government undertook a drastic reform of parliament.

It was hard to work without breakfast.

Let's not stand on ceremony.