音読み: トウ
訓読み: うつ
画数: 10
部首: 訁（ごんべん）
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).
二人は 政策について 討論した。
The two debated policy.
この案を 慎重に 検討してください。
Please examine this proposal carefully.
検討 — examination; consideration