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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)

北極洋ほっきょくよう

Arctic Ocean

北極熊ほっきょくぐま

polar bear (Ursus maritimus)

北極光ほっきょくこう

northern lights

北極ほっきょく

North Pole

北極星ほっきょくせい

Polaris (star in the constellation Ursa Minor)

both extremes

polar areas

both extremities

to reach an extreme

to carry to extremes

ultimate

ultrahigh frequency

bird of paradise flower

ascertainment

NS magnetic pole

extremely

polar distance

(Imperial) accession

a place of extreme cold

危極ききょく

crisis

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