Kanji
N1 3 strokes Grade 8 freq #544

reach out, exert, exercise, cause

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

again mata

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

diffusion; spread
investigation (e.g. into someone's guilt); questioning
reference; allusion
spread; extension
passing (an examination); making the grade
as ... as possible

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to reach; to amount to
bent back
to exert (influence); to exercise
and; as well as

Example sentences

The popularity of the telephone has led to fewer people writing letters these days.

Today cars are so popular that we assume everyone has one.

I was pressed by their questioning and slipped into telling an obvious lie.

When Kawazoe pinned me down at the meeting, I broke out in a cold sweat.