叩 – strike, beat, kow tow

5 strokes#2316 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 叩 means strike, beat, kow tow, hit, thrash, criticize. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is コウ (kou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is たた.く、はた.く、すぎ (tataku, hataku, sugi). It is written with 5 strokes, under radical 口 (no. 30).

Stroke order

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

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	コウ	kou
Kun’yomi	たた.く	tataku
Kun’yomi	はた.く	hataku
Kun’yomi	すぎ	sugi

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: 口 (Kangxi radical 30). Components: 口・卩.

Words using 叩

叩くたたくto strike叩くはたくto dust

Kanji with the same radical

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Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.