技

skill; art; craft; ability; feat; performance; vocation; arts

7 strokes. Taught in grade 5. Newspaper frequency rank 434.

Readings

• ギ (on reading): 技術 (ぎじゅつ) technology; 競技 (きょうぎ) game
• わざ (kun reading): 技 (わざ) technique; 必殺技 (ひっさつわざ) killer technique

Components

• 扌
• 支
• 十 radical ten
• 又 radical again; right hand
• ⺘ radical hand, left-side form of 手
• 支 radical branch

Words using 技

• 技術 (ぎじゅつ) technology
• 競技 (きょうぎ) game
• 陸上競技 (りくじょうきょうぎ) track and field
• 演技 (えんぎ) acting
• 技法 (ぎほう) technique
• 技 (わざ) technique
• 必殺技 (ひっさつわざ) killer technique
• 技あり (わざあり) waza-ari (in judo, a half-point awarded for good but incomplete execution)
• 裏技 (うらわざ) secret trick
• 得意技 (とくいわざ) signature move (assoc. with a martial artist, wrestler, etc.)

432 words in all.

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