Kanji

Stroke count: 15

Meaning: brush up, reject, exclude, eliminate, bone plectrum

Kunyomi: は.ねる おさ.める

Onyomi: ハツ バチ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: hand

Examples

Onyomi Examples

発条 バネ spring, spring (in one's legs), bounce, springboard, impetus

ハツオン the sound of the kana "n"

バチ plectrum (for a shamisen, biwa, etc.), pick, drumstick (for taiko), mallet (for a gong), beater

バチオト sound made by a plectrum

メバチ bigeye tuna (edible fish, Thunnus obesus)

Kunyomi Examples

ねる はねる to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone), to run into, to reject, to deny, to refuse, to eliminate, to exclude, to leave out, to flip, to splash, to splatter, to decapitate, to behead, to jump up, to point or curl up (e.g. ends of hair)