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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)

負極ふきょく

anode

暴虐を極めるぼうぎゃくをきわめる

to act with extreme violence

陰極管いんきょくかん

cathode(-ray) tube

極秘情報ごくひじょうほう

classified information

二極化にきょくか

bipolarization

南極条約なんきょくじょうやく

Antarctic Treaty

極低温きょくていおん

very (extremely) low temperature

antipodes

very thick

far-left group

extreme environment

bipolar disorder

overconcentration (esp. of population, cultural and political institutions, etc. in Tokyo)

極楽とんぼごくらくとんぼ

happy-go-lucky fellow

extremely delighted

inhuman

absolute heaven

absolute heaven

deep regret

crisis

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