Kanji
N1 10 strokes Grade 9 freq #2423

endure, keep (rain)out, stave off, tide over, defy

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

ice nisui

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

skyscraping; very high
seaworthiness
excelling; surpassing
Chinese trumpet creeper (Campsis grandiflora)
lingchi; death by a thousand cuts
nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus)
Chinese trumpet creeper (Campsis grandiflora)
lingchi (form of torture and execution used in China); slow slicing

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to endure; to keep out (e.g. rain)
(means of) enduring; tiding over
shelter
living from hand to mouth
makeshift; for the time being
to put young men to shame
to eke out a living; to get a bare livelihood

Example sentences

For the first time in my life, I felt a pang of conscience, but there was no other way out.

Thousands of Americans have a hard time keeping the wolf from the door.