抜 – slip out, extract, pull out

7 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#726 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 抜 means slip out, extract, pull out, pilfer, quote, remove, omit. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is バツ、ハツ、ハイ (batsu, hatsu, hai); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is ぬ.く、-ぬ.く、ぬ.き、ぬ.ける、ぬ.かす、ぬ.かる (nuku, nuku, nuki, nukeru, nukasu, nukaru). It is written with 7 strokes, under radical 手 (no. 64).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	バツ	batsu
On’yomi	ハツ	hatsu
On’yomi	ハイ	hai
Kun’yomi	ぬ.く	nuku
Kun’yomi	-ぬ.く	nuku
Kun’yomi	ぬ.き	nuki
Kun’yomi	ぬ.ける	nukeru
Kun’yomi	ぬ.かす	nukasu
Kun’yomi	ぬ.かる	nukaru

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: 夂・亠・扎・又.

Words using 抜

抜くぬくto pull out抜けるぬけるto come out海抜かいばつheight above sea level抜かすぬかすto omit抜け出すぬけだすto slip out

Example sentences

歯医者に行ってその歯を抜いてもらった方がよいですね。

You had better go to the dentist to have that tooth pulled out.

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たまに朝飯を抜いたって、別に悪いことじゃないよ。

It's no crime to skip breakfast once in a while.

Tatoeba #203278

最後まで戦い抜こう。

Let's fight to the last.

Tatoeba #170547

Kanji with the same radical

手持指投打提挙援担技撃推接授摘批

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