Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

拓: clear (the land), open

Also: break up (land)

JLPT N18 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

扌 carries the meaning · 石 gives the sound

8 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

タクtaku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 開拓かいたくreclamation (e.g. of wasteland); cultivation
  • 拓殖たくしょくcolonization; colonisation; development
  • 干拓かんたく
  • 拓本たくほんrubbing; rubbed copy
  • 開拓者かいたくしゃpioneer; settler; colonist
  • 未開拓みかいたくundeveloped (area)

Also read ひらく, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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“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
石

Also built on stone (石)

All 20

The 石 sound family doesn't share one reading.

Also read タク

9 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
拓 clear (the land) · 扌
vs妬 jealous · 女
拓 has 扌 where 妬 has 女.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · tà

Same form: 拓 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

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

Pinyin tà 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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