討 — chastise, attack, defeat

うつ討 chastise

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes

U+8A0E Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #528 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #364 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

chastise
attack
defeat
destroy
conquer

word

う u 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).

討(う) つ utsu to attack

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

検(けん) 討(とう) kentou examination 討(とう) 論(ろん) touron debate 討(とう) 議(ぎ) tougi debate 再(さい) 検(けん) 討(とう) saikentou re-examination

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

げん言 say #149

すん寸 inch #41

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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.

#149 言 speech