Meaning & readings
accusation, sue, complain of pain, appeal to
On’yomi ソ
Kun’yomi うった.える
Origin
The character 訴 combines the speech radical 言 on the left with 斥 on the right. The 言 component indicates this character is about words and language, establishing that it involves speaking or communication. The 斥 component carries the sense of pushing away or rejecting something. Together, these parts create the idea of speaking out against something — pushing back through words — which led to the meanings of accusing, suing, complaining, or appealing.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 12
- Kangxi radical
- 149
- Formation type
- Compound ideographic (combined meanings)
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #427 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+08A34