Meaning & readings
rob, take by force, snatch away, dispossess, plunder, usurp
On’yomi ダツ
Kun’yomi うば.う
Origin
This character combines two components to show the idea of forceful taking. The top part suggests struggle or grasping, while the bottom part, 寸, represents a hand or a unit of measure — essentially something you can hold or control. Together they paint a picture of seizing something forcefully, as if wresting it away from someone else's grasp. The combination of the sense of struggle with the notion of taking control creates the meaning of robbery or plunder.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Components
- 奞
- 寸
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 14
- Kangxi radical
- 37
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #974 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+0596A