漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
斥: reject, retreat
Also: recede, withdraw, repel, repulse
JLPT N15 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
斤 carries the meaning · 丶 is drawn in
5 strokes
Bronze · Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
セキseki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 排斥はいせきrejection; expulsion; boycott
- 斥候せっこうscout; patrol; spy
- 斥力せきりょくrepulsion; repulsive force
Also read しりぞける, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Chop! Imagine a heavy axe swinging through the air to split a log.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side斥 reject · 丶
vs丘 hill · 一In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · chì
Same form: 斥 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 斥 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 斥 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin chì 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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