拭 – wipe, mop, swab

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The kanji 拭 means wipe, mop, swab. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ショク、シキ (shoku, shiki); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is ぬぐ.う、ふ.く (nuguu, fuku). It is written with 9 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	ショク	shoku
On’yomi	シキ	shiki
Kun’yomi	ぬぐ.う	nuguu
Kun’yomi	ふ.く	fuku

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: 工・弋・扎.

Words using 拭

拭くふくto wipe手拭いてぬぐいtenugui

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.