Meaning & readings
repudiate, exclude, expel, reject, line up, arrange
On’yomi ハイ
Nanori おし
Origin
The character combines a hand component on the left with a sound hint on the right. The hand element suggests an action performed with the hands — specifically, pushing or moving something away. The right component indicates the approximate pronunciation but doesn't contribute a related meaning. Together, the shape evolved to represent the act of pushing things aside, which naturally extends to the ideas of excluding, rejecting, or arranging things in a line by pushing them into order.
Components
- 扌
- 非
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 11
- Kangxi radical
- 64
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1047 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+06392