音読み: サク
訓読み: しぼる
画数: 13
部首: てへん（手）
Meaning
To squeeze / Press / Extract
- Basic forms
- 搾る — squeeze; extract / base form
- 搾ります — squeezes; extracts / masu form
- 搾った — squeezed; extracted / ta form
- 搾って — squeezing … / te form
- 搾らない — do not squeeze / negative
- 搾れば — if (one) squeezes / conditional
- Common expressions
- 牛乳を搾る — milk a cow
- 果汁を搾る — extract juice
- 雑巾を搾る — wring out a cloth
- 弱者からお金を搾り取る — squeeze money from the vulnerable
- More
- 搾っている — is squeezing / state
搾る（しぼる） is a godan transitive verb. It means to extract liquid by applying pressure, and is used for milking, juicing, or wringing something out.
- 搾る — to squeeze; wring; press out
- 圧搾 — compression; pressing
- 搾乳 — milking; expressing milk
- 搾取 — exploitation; to take by squeezing others
- 搾油 — oil extraction/pressing
The hand radical 手 tells you it’s a physical action. 搾 is the hand that forces something out — juice, oil, or effort.