徹
thorough; penetrate; clear; pierce; strike home; sit up (all night)
15 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 968.
Readings
Components
- 彳
- 育
- 攵
- 乞 radical beg
- 亠 radical lid
- 厶 radical private
- 彳 radical step, left-side form of 行
- 攵 radical strike, right-side form of 攴
- 月 radical moon; flesh
Words using 徹
- 徹夜 (てつや) staying up all night
- 徹底的 (てっていてき) thorough
- 徹底 (てってい) thoroughness
- 徹する (てっする) to penetrate
- 徹甲弾 (てっこうだん) armor piercing ammunition
40 words in all.