音読み: バツ
訓読み: ぬく・ぬける・ぬかす・ぬかる
画数: 7
部首: てへん（扌）
Meaning
Pull Out / Extract / Omit / Outshine
Conjugation
Tap for 抜く (pull out; remove)
Tap for 抜ける (come out)
- 抜く — to pull out / to extract / to remove
- 抜ける — to come out / to fall out / to slip out
- 海抜 — elevation above sea level
- 抜本的 — drastic / fundamental / “from the root”
- 抜群 — outstanding / exceptional / standing out
- 抜粋 — excerpt / selected passage / extract from a text
- 抜擢 — exceptional promotion / being specially chosen
抜 combines the hand radical 扌 on the left with a phonetic element on the right. The てへん radical marks actions done by the hand. The core image is “to pull something out by hand.” From there, 抜 develops a wide range of meanings: to remove (抜く), to come loose or fall out (抜ける), to leave something out (抜かす), and even “to stand out from the rest,” which survives in words like 抜群.