Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

2046 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 13

Meaning: squeeze

Kunyomi: しぼ.る

Onyomi: サク

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: hand

Examples

Onyomi Examples

サクシュ exploitation, bleeding dry, squeezing dry, milking (e.g. a cow's teat), extracting (a liquid) through squeezing

サクニュウ milking (a cow, goat, etc.), breast pumping

アッサク pressure, compression

Kunyomi Examples

絞る しぼる to wring (towel, rag), to squeeze, to squeeze (fruit to extract juice), to press, to extract, to milk, to express milk, to rack (one's brains), to strain (one's voice), to extort, to exploit, to chew out, to reprimand severely, to rake over the coals, to give a sound scolding, to tell someone off, to scold, to rebuke, to drill into, to train, to narrow down (one's focus), to whittle down, to gather up (curtain, etc.), to tighten (drawstring), to stop down (lens), to turn down (e.g. radio), to bend (bow), to draw, to hold down, to constrict, to immobilize