諾

音読おんよみ: ダク

訓読くんよみ: うべな-う

画数かくすう: 15

部首ぶしゅ: ごんべん(言)

Meaning

Consent / Agree / Assent / Say yes

  • 承諾しょうだく — consent; approval; agreeing to a request
  • 快諾かいだく — gladly agreeing; willing consent
  • 許諾きょだく — permission; authorization (for use or rights)
  • 受諾じゅだく — acceptance of terms, an offer, or a request
  • 諾否だくひ — yes-or-no decision; acceptance or rejection
  • うべなう — to consent; to say yes (literary)

With the speech radical on the left, shows words that lean toward acceptance. It carries the idea of hearing someone out and then giving a clear, deliberate “yes.”

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