Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

迫: urge, force

Also: imminent, spur on

JLPT N18 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

⻌ carries the meaning · 白 gives the sound

8 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

ハクhaku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 迫力はくりょくimpressiveness; impact; force
  • 脅迫きょうはくthreat; menace; coercion
  • 緊迫きんぱく
  • 気迫きはくspirit; soul; drive
  • 迫害はくがいpersecution; oppression
  • 圧迫あっぱく
  • 迫撃はくげきclose attack

せまるsemaru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 迫るせまるto approach; to draw near; to be imminent

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
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繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
白

Also built on white (白)

All 14

迫 takes the 白 family's reading, ハク (haku).

⻌

Also built on road (⻌)

All 54

Also read ハク

9 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
迫 urge · 白
vs迪 edify · 由
迫 has 白 where 迪 has 由.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · pò

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

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

Pinyin pò 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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