抜

音読おんよみ: バツ

訓読くんよみ:・ぬける・ぬかす・ぬかる

画数かくすう: 7

部首ぶしゅ: 扌(てへん)

Meaning

Pull Out / Extract / Omit / Outshine

  • く — to pull out / to extract / to remove
  • ける — to come out / to fall out / to slip out
  • 海抜かいばつ — elevation above sea level
  • 抜本的ばっぽんてき — drastic / fundamental / “from the root”
  • 抜群ばつぐん — outstanding / exceptional / standing out
  • 抜粋ばっすい — excerpt / selected passage / extract from a text
  • 抜擢ばってき — 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.

抜本ばっぽん抜本的ばっぽんてき — literally “pulling from the root.” 本 is “root / base,” and 抜 is “to pull out.” 抜本的 means deep, structural, fix-it-at-the-source reform — not just a surface tweak.

Creates

抜群ばつぐん — outstanding / exceptional / standing out

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