奪

音読おんよみ: ダツ

訓読くんよみ: うば

画数かくすう: 14

部首ぶしゅ: だい(大)

Meaning

Take by force / Rob / Snatch away / Steal / Deprive

  • うばう — to snatch; to take away from someone
  • 奪取だっしゅ — seizure; taking by force
  • 略奪りゃくだつ — looting; plunder
  • 強奪ごうだつ — violent robbery
  • 奪回だっかい — to win back; to recapture what was lost
  • 奪還だっかん — recovery; getting something back from enemy control
  • 剝奪はくだつ — deprivation; stripping someone of rights or status
  • 争奪そうだつ — a scramble or competition to seize something

combines the hand element with imagery of forceful action. The core idea is not simply “to take,” but to take against someone’s will. This sense of violence or coercion remains clear in words like 奪取 (seizure), 奪還 (recapture), and 命を奪う — “to take a life.”

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