Kanji1 / 17
擦 kanji
grate, rub, scratch, scrape, chafe, scour
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 17
- School grade
- Secondary school
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Kun readings
するすれる-ずれこするこすれる
Words with 擦
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2摩擦Popularfriction; rubbing; chafing; discord; friction; strife; conflict
- —塗擦rubbing an ointment into the skin
- —擦痕stria (carved out by a glacier, etc.)
- —擦過abrasion; scrape; graze; paratripsis
- —擦筆stump of a pencil or brush
- —擦文brush-mark pattern (scraped into the surface of earthenware with wood)
- —擦傷abrasion; chafe; graze
- —擦過傷abrasion; scratch; graze
- —破擦音affricate; affricative
- —摩擦音fricative; fricative consonant
- —塗擦剤liniment; ointment; salve
- —摩擦熱frictional heat
- —動摩擦kinetic friction
- —間擦疹intertrigo
- —歯擦音sibilant; sibilant consonant
- —摩擦力frictional force
- —摩擦角angle of friction; frictional angle
- —冷水摩擦rubdown with a wet towel; cold-water rubbing
- —潮汐摩擦tidal friction
- —乾布摩擦rubdown with a dry towel