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極

JLPT N2 SL4 12 strokes Frequency: #460

Meanings

Poles, Settlement, Conclusion, End, Highest Rank, Electric Poles, Very, Extremely, Most, Highly, 10**48

Radicals

木

Decomposition

⿰木亟

Etymology

Pictophonetic: wood

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 12

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top

2 vertical right-to-left

3 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

4 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

5 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

6 corner right-to-left

7 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

8 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

9 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

10 corner top-to-bottom

11 dot top-left-to-bottom-right

12 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ゴク goku

キョク kyoku

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

きわ kiwa

き ki

Words Using This Kanji

290 words total

Other (20 words)

究極きゅうきょく

ultimate

極悪ごくあく

heinous

極楽鳥ごくらくちょう

bird of paradise (Paradisaeidae family)

polar coordinates

maximum

pole (north, south)

microscopic

height

far right (in politics)

capital punishment

polarity

culmination

ultrathin

to the utmost

exceedingly

Sukhavati (Amitabha's Pure Land)

utmost limits

polar

cryonics

crisis

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