| Kanji | 挨 |
|---|---|
| Onyomi | アイ |
| Kunyomi | ひら.く |
| English | push open |
| Examples | 挨拶(あいさつ): (1) greeting; greetings; salutation; salute (2) speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address (3) reply; response (4) revenge; retaliation (5) a fine thing to say (used as part of a sarcastic response to a rude remark) (6) (orig. meaning) dialoging (with another Zen practitioner to ascertain their level of enlightenment) |
| JLPT Level | 0 |
| Jouyou Grade | S |
| Frequency | 2258 |
| Components | 手: hand 矣: sentence particle |
| Number of Strokes | 10 |
| Kanji Radical | 手 |
| Radical Number | 64 |
| Radical Strokes | 4 |
| Radical Reading | て・てへん |
| Traditional Form | (none) |
| Classification | 形声 Phonetic |
| Keyword | shove |
| Koohii Story 1 | In the busy pub, one of the dart players shoved his dart into my elbow by accident when it nearly slipped out of his fingers. |
| Koohii Story 2 | Your fingers slip when someone´s elbow shoves you, causing you to drop the dart you were about to throw. But as you can see, their elbow is very small, so you decide they´re too weak to shove back. |
Tags: jlpt.n0, grades, kanjifreq2001-2500
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