The kanji 突: meaning, readings and stroke order
突
- Meaning
- poke, sudden
- On reading
- トツ totsu
- Kun reading
- つ(く) tsuku
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 穴 cave
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
- Old form
- 突
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- đâm, đột ngột (đột)
- Japanese
- つく。きゅうに。
- Korean
- 찌르다, 갑자기 (돌)
- Chinese
- 戳、突然
Readings, words and example sentences
トツ totsu · on reading
突然
suddenly
突然 雨が ふりだしました。
Suddenly it started to rain.
つ(く) tsuku · kun reading · less common
突く
to poke, to jab
ぼうで 地面を 突きます。
I poke the ground with a stick.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.