Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1057 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 6

Meaning: handle, entertain, thresh, strip

Kunyomi: あつか.い あつか.う あつか.る こ.く

Onyomi: ソウ キュウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: hand

Examples

Kunyomi Examples

あつかい treatment, service, dealing (with), handling, management, handling (of a machine, tool, etc.), operation, use, treating as, treating like

い方 あつかいかた how to manage (e.g. case), how to handle (e.g. machine), way with (e.g. children, animal)

あつかう to deal with (a person), to treat, to handle, to take care of, to entertain, to deal with (a problem), to handle, to manage, to operate (e.g. a machine), to handle, to work, to deal in, to sell, to cover (a topic), to treat, to discuss, to take up, to treat A as B, to mediate (an argument), to be too much for one, to find unmanageable, to gossip

こく to thresh, to strip