捨 – discard, throw away, abandon

11 strokesTaught in grade 6#1266 in newspaper frequencyN4 vocabulary

The kanji 捨 means discard, throw away, abandon, resign, reject, sacrifice. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is シャ (sha); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is す.てる (suteru). It is written with 11 strokes, under radical 手 (no. 64).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	シャ	sha
Kun’yomi	す.てる	suteru

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 手 (Kangxi radical 64). Components: 口・土・个・扎.

Words using 捨

捨てるすてるto throw away四捨五入ししゃごにゅうrounding (off

Example sentences

私はあなたの皮肉な言葉は聞き捨てにはできません。

I resent your cynical remarks.

Tatoeba #161647

５８１４を千の位に四捨五入すれば何になりますか。

What is 5814 rounded to the nearest thousand?

Tatoeba #76953

Kanji with the same radical

手持指投打提挙援担技撃推接授摘批

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