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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)

極大値きょくだいち

local maximum

極め付ききわめつき

certified (as genuine, valuable, etc.)

polar front

superfine

extremely

local minimum

northern or southern lights

polar seas

wicked

rebirth in paradise

last month of the year

extreme situation

richly colored

intense heat

extreme heat

far left (in politics)

limit

utter villain

maximum dose

crisis

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