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The Kanji Map

Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1816 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 6

Meaning: fell, strike, attack, punish

Kunyomi: き.る, そむ.く, う.つ

Onyomi: バツ, ハツ, カ, ボチ

Composition: 亻 戈

伐

Radical

Radical: 人

Meaning: man, human

Reading: ひと

Frequency: 794

Alternative forms:

亻(alt radical position hen)𠆢(alt radical position kanmuri)

人

Examples

Onyomi Examples

伐木 (バツボク) felling, logging

間伐 (カンバツ) periodic thinning (e.g. forest)

乱伐 (ランバツ) reckless deforestation, overcutting of forests

Kunyomi Examples

伐る (きる) to cut down (e.g. trees)

討つ (うつ) to attack, to destroy, to defeat, to conquer, to avenge

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