Meaning & readings
resist, reach, touch
On’yomi テイ
Origin
The character 抵 combines a hand component on the left, which shows this kanji involves something done by hand, with the sound component 氐 on the right, which hints at the pronunciation. The hand element suggests a physical action, while the sound component provides the rough pronunciation guide. Together, the character came to mean actions performed by hand like resisting, pushing against something, or touching — all things hands do when they come into contact with an object or obstacle.
Components
- 扌
- 氐
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 8
- Kangxi radical
- 64
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1182 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+062B5