徹 — penetrate, clear, pierce

てつ徹 penetrate

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 15 strokes

U+5FB9 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #968 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #951 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

penetrate
clear
pierce
strike home
sit up

word

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

徹(てつ) tetsu penetrate 徹(てつ) 夜(や) tetsuya staying up all night

てっ te 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).

徹(てっ) 底(てい) tettei thoroughness 徹(てっ) 底(てい) 的(てき) tetteiteki thorough

Appears in idioms

周知徹底四字熟語

circumference, know, penetrate, bottom

徹頭徹尾四字熟語

penetrate, head, penetrate, tail

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

彳 step

いく育 bring up

攵 strike

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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.

#60 彳 step