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音読おんよみ: チュウ

訓読くんよみ: ひ-くぬ-く

画数かくすう: 8

部首ぶしゅ: 扌(てへん)

Meaning

Pull Out / Draw Out / Extract / Abstract

  • 抽出ちゅうしゅつ — extraction; pulling something out
  • 抽象ちゅうしょう — abstraction; abstract concept
  • 抽象的ちゅうしょうてき — abstract; not concrete
  • 抽選ちゅうせん — lottery; drawing lots

On the left, is the hand radical, showing an action done by hand. The right part gives the sound チュウ and originally suggested something inside a container. Together, is a hand reaching in and pulling one thing out from among many. From “pulling out a part,” it naturally expanded to “pulling out just the idea” — the abstract meaning.

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