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漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

抜: slip out, extract

Also: pull out, pilfer, quote, remove, omit

JLPT N37 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

扌 carries the meaning · 友 gives the sound

7 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Four readings, and the words that use each

バツbatsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 抜群ばつぐんpre-eminence
  • 海抜かいばつheight above sea level
  • 奇抜なきばつなoriginal, eccentric
  • 抜本的なばっぽんてきなdrastic, radical
  • 抜粋するばっすいするextract, select
  • 選抜するせんばつするselect

ぬくnuku · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 抜くぬくdraw out, unplug [v.t.]

ぬけるnukeru · kun'yomi

  • 抜けるぬけるcome out, be missing, [v.i.]

ぬかすnukasu · kun'yomi

  • 抜かすぬかすomit, leave out [v.t.]

Also read ハツ, ハイ, -ぬく, ぬき, ぬかる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Imagine a hand reaching out from the left to grab, hold, or shape the world! When you see these three strokes, think of a hand in motion.”
More in the 扌 hand story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
扌

Also built on hand (扌)

All 88
友

Also built on friend (友)

抜 takes the 友 family's reading, ハツ (hatsu).

Also read バツ

5 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read ハツ

6 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read ハイ

10 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
抜 slip out · 友
vs投 throw · 殳
抜 has 友 where 投 has 殳.
In ChineseA Japanese form · Chinese writes 拔 · bá

抜 is a Japanese simplification. Chinese writes 拔 in both simplified and traditional script.

Simplified
拔 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
拔 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin bá most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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