投
throw; discard; abandon; launch into; join; invest in; hurl; give up
7 strokes. Taught in grade 3. Newspaper frequency rank 236.
Readings
- トウ (on reading): 投稿 (とうこう) contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.); 投票 (とうひょう) voting
- なげる (kun reading): 投げる (なげる) to throw; ぶん投げる (ぶんなげる) to throw (strongly, violently, etc.)
- なげ (kun reading): 投げ (なげ) throw; 投げつける (なげつける) to throw at
Components
- 扌
- 殳
- 几 radical table
- 又 radical again; right hand
- ⺘ radical hand, left-side form of 手
- 殳 radical weapon; strike
Words using 投
- 投稿 (とうこう) contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.)
- 投票 (とうひょう) voting
- 投手 (とうしゅ) pitcher
- 投入 (とうにゅう) throwing in
- 投資 (とうし) investment
- 投げる (なげる) to throw
- ぶん投げる (ぶんなげる) to throw (strongly, violently, etc.)
- 放り投げる (ほうりなげる) to throw
- 思案投首 (しあんなげくび) being at one's wit's end
- さじを投げる (さじをなげる) to give up (something as hopeless)
- 投げ (なげ) throw
- 投げつける (なげつける) to throw at
- 投げ銭 (なげせん) tossing a coin (to a street performer or beggar)
- 投げ出す (なげだす) to throw down
- 投げ捨てる (なげすてる) to throw away
- 投網 (とあみ) cast net
387 words in all.