| Kanji | 拶 | 
|---|---|
| Onyomi | サツ | 
| Kunyomi | せま.る | 
| English | be imminent | 
| 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 | 
| Components | 手: hand 巛: curving river radical (no.47) 夕: evening | 
| Number of Strokes | 9 | 
| Kanji Radical | 手 | 
| Radical Number | 64 | 
| Radical Strokes | 4 | 
| Radical Reading | て・てへん | 
| Traditional Form | (none) | 
| Classification | 会意 Compound Ideographic | 
| Keyword | imminent | 
| Koohii Story 1 | The old lady said that there was a flood imminent, because her fingers hurt in the evening. | 
| Koohii Story 2 | The Dutch boy put his finger in the dam holding back imminent danger from flood waters until evening. | 
| RTK Index (new) | 713 | 
Tags: jlpt.n0, grades
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