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  1. Ichidan verb, Transitive verb

    to sniff out; to get wind of

    その新聞記者はニュースを嗅ぎつける鋭い勘を持っている。
    The newsman has a nose for news.

Also written 嗅ぎ付ける【かぎつける】

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Characters in this word

1
嗅
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

smell, sniff, scent

Kun
か.ぐ
On
キュウ
Strokes
13
Taught
Junior high
Frequency
2480 of 2500
Radical
口 mouth

Built from

口自大目犬
Words starting with 嗅Words ending in 嗅Anywhere in a word
Dictionary and index codes (14)
CodeReference
1-3-10SKIP code
3d10.3The Kanji Dictionary
6603.4Four corner code
55c5Unicode hex code
1-51-44JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
973Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
871New Nelson (John Haig)
772Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
576Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
129Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4048Morohashi
1311Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
xiu4Pinyin reading
huKorean reading