Entry
  1. Noun

    hiring from another company; recruitment; scouting; headhunting

    社長は新しいセールスマネージャーを入れるため、引き抜き専門の人物を雇った。
    The company president has hired a headhunter to find us a new sales manager.
  2. quick costume change (taking off outer costume)

    Kabuki

  3. drawing (wire, pipes, metal plate)

  4. extraction; pulling out

Also written 引抜き【ひきぬき】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

pull, tug, jerk, admit, install, quote, refer to

Kun
ひ.くひ.ける
On
イン
Strokes
4
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N3
Frequency
218 of 2500
Radical
bow
WaniKani
Level 3

Built from

Used in names as

いなひきひけびき

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
1-3-1SKIP code
3h1.1The Kanji Dictionary
1220.0Four corner code
3554deroo
5f15Unicode hex code
1-16-90JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1562Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1681New Nelson (John Haig)
181New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
207Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
133Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
160Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1232Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1318Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
238A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
144Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
271Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
9699Morohashi
77A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
216Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
216Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
156sakade
167Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
81henshall3
87Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
263crowley
257Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
3.2busy_people
605Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1240Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
yin3Pinyin reading
inKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
3WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

slip out, extract, pull out, pilfer, quote, remove, omit

Kun
ぬ.く-ぬ.くぬ.きぬ.けるぬ.かすぬ.かる
On
バツハツハイ
Strokes
7
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N3
Frequency
726 of 2500
Radical
hand
WaniKani
Level 25

Built from

Used in names as

ぬき

Dictionary and index codes (30)
CodeReference
1-3-4SKIP code
3c4.10The Kanji Dictionary
5404.7Four corner code
1367deroo
629cUnicode hex code
1-40-20JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1854Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2093New Nelson (John Haig)
246New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
290Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
183Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
219Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
705Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
761Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
684A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
384Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1525Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
11901PMorohashi
1708A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1713Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1830Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
561Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1129Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
769Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
864Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
712Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
ba2Pinyin reading
bal, paeKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
25WaniKani level