Meaning & readings
remove, withdraw, disarm, dismantle, reject, exclude
Origin
The character 撤 combines a hand radical on the left, which shows this is an action you do with your hands, with a sound component on the right that hints at the pronunciation. The right side suggests how the character should be pronounced rather than contributing to its meaning. The hand element paired with this phonetic hint creates a character that means to remove, withdraw, or take apart something — actions typically performed by hand, whether physically dismantling an object or withdrawing from a position.
Components
- 扌
- 育+攵
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Easily confused with
These look alike but are unrelated in meaning — check the stroke that differs.
Reference
- Strokes
- 15
- Kangxi radical
- 64
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #811 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+064A4