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EntryCommonJLPT N2

  1. Godan verb with 'ku' ending, Transitive verb

    to peel; to skin; to pare; to hull; to strip

    Usually written using kana alone

    このなしの皮をむくナイフを貸して下さい。
    Lend me a knife with which to peel this pear.

  2. to bare (teeth, fangs); to open wide (eyes)

    Usually written using kana alone

Also written 剝く【むく】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
剥
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

come off, peel, fade, discolor

Kun
へ.ぐへず.るむ.くむ.けるは.がれるは.ぐは.げるは.がす
On
ハクホク
Strokes
10
Frequency
2383 of 2500
Radical
刀 knife

Built from

ヨ刈水
Words starting with 剥Words ending in 剥Anywhere in a word
Dictionary and index codes (14)
CodeReference
1-8-2SKIP code
2f8.4The Kanji Dictionary
2210.0Four corner code
5265Unicode hex code
1-39-77JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
695Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
496New Nelson (John Haig)
2106Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2145Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1227Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1427Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1719Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
bo1, bao1Pinyin reading
bagKorean reading