却 — instead, on the contrary, rather

きゃく却 instead

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes

U+5374 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #959 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1497 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

instead
on the contrary
rather
step back
withdraw
retreat

word

きゃく kyaku On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

売(ばい) 却(きゃく) baikyaku sale 脱(だっ) 却(きゃく) dakkyaku escape 冷(れい) 却(きゃく) reikyaku cooling 焼(しょう) 却(きゃく) shoukyaku incineration 償(しょう) 却(きゃく) shoukyaku amortization 返(へん) 却(きゃく) henkyaku return 棄(き) 却(きゃく) kikyaku rejection

きゃっ kya Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

却(きゃっ) 下(か) kyakka rejection

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

さる去 leave

卩 seal

Used as component in (1)

きゃく脚 skids

Open in Atlas

Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#26 卩 seal