音読み: トウ
訓読み: うつ
画数: 10
部首: ごんべん（訁）
Meaning
Discuss / Debate / Attack / Censure
- Basic forms
- 討つ — attack; strike down; defeat / base form
- 討ちます — attack; strike down / masu form
- 討った — attacked; struck down / ta form
- 討って — attacking … / te form
- 討たない — do not attack / negative
- 討てば — if (one) attacks / conditional
- 討て — attack!; strike them down! / imperative
- Common expressions
- 敵を討つ — defeat an enemy
- 仇を討つ — avenge someone
- 反乱軍を討つ — suppress rebels
- More
- 討たれる — be defeated; be struck down / passive
- 討っている — is attacking; is fighting / state
討つ（うつ） is a godan transitive verb. It is often used in historical, literary, or formal contexts, especially for defeating enemies or taking revenge.
- 討論 — debate; discussion
- 検討 — examination; consideration
- 討伐 — suppression; subjugation
- 討論会 — debate forum
- 討議 — deliberation; conference
- 再討論 — renewed debate
討 combines 言 “speech” with 寸 “act/measure,” yielding the sense of purposeful speech or corrective action. It spans both verbal critique (討論) and martial action (討伐).