The Kanji Map

Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 6

JLPT level: N2

1266 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: discard, throw away, abandon, resign, reject, sacrifice

Kunyomi: す.てる

Onyomi: シャ

Composition: 扌舎

捨

Radical

Radical: 手

Reading: てへん

Meaning: hand

Strokes: 3

手

Examples

Examples with audio

四捨五入（ししゃごにゅう） rounding up (fractions)

取捨選択（しゅしゃせんたく） decision to adopt or reject

捨てる（すてる） throw away

見捨てる（みすてる） abandon

Onyomi Examples

捨（シャ） equanimity, upeksa, upekkha

捨象（シャショウ） abstraction

取捨（シュシャ） adoption or rejection, selection, choice, option

用捨（ヨウシャ） adoption or rejection, selection, choice, leniency, mercy, going easy (on someone)

Kunyomi Examples

捨てる（すてる） to throw away, to cast away, to dump, to discard, to abandon, to desert, to leave, to give up, to resign

捨てる神あれば拾う神あり（すてるかみあればひろうかみあり） when one door is shut, another is open, the world is as kind as it is cruel