抓
抓 — jo
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 긁을 조
- Romanization
- jo
- English
- scratch; clutch, seize, grab
- Mandarin
- zhuā
- Japanese on'yomi
- ソウ, ショウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- つ.ねる つ.める つね.る つま.む
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 手 (64, 4 residual)
- Unicode
- U+6293
Parts that make up 抓
How 抓 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 抓 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 手, 爪.
Japanese words with 抓
- 抓るつねる to pinch; to nip
Other hanja read “조”
Other hanja with radical 手
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