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Throw Give Missile Primitive Letter 投 トウ な.げる、 な.げ

Kanji
Onyomi トウ
Kunyomi な.げる、-な.げ
English throw, discard, abandon, launch into, join, invest in, hurl, give up, sell at a loss
Examples 投資(とうし): investment
投票(とうひょう): voting; poll
投書(とうしょ): letter to the editor; letter from a reader; contribution
投入(とうにゅう): (1) throwing into; inserting; depositing (2) investment; putting in (personnel, etc.) (3) release of a product (4) making (an electrical circuit)
投げ出す(なげだす): (1) to throw down; to throw out; to stretch out (one's legs) (2) to abandon; to resign (3) to give freely; to give generously; to sacrifice (e.g. one's life) (4) to start to throw
投げる(なげる): (1) to throw; to cast away (2) to face defeat; to give up
JLPT Level 3
Jouyou Grade 3
Frequency 236
Components 手: hand
殳: pike; windy-again radical (no. 79)
Number of Strokes 7
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 64
Radical Strokes 4
Radical Reading て・てへん
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword throw
Koohii Story 1 Well, you usually use your fingers to throw objects used as missile weapons. Easy. By the way, for those of you looking for a less anachronistic image for the missile primitive as a modern rocket, try a slingshot. it´s a crotch (originally a tree branch) that sends missile projectiles flying into/like the wind. And for this present kanji, it is something you naturally use with your fingers...
Koohii Story 2 If you use the primitive "semen" (flying in the wind from your crotch) instead of missile then all kanjis with this primitive will hilariously create a perfect story.

Tags: jlpt.n3, grade3, kanjifreq1-250

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