Kanji1 / 7
攻 kanji
aggression, attack, criticize, polish
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
コウ
Kun readings
せめる
Words with 攻
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —辞書攻撃dictionary attack
- —飽和攻撃saturation attack
- —特別攻撃suicide attack; kamikaze attack
- —人格攻撃personal attack; ad hominem
- —以夷攻夷controlling foreigners by foreigners; playing one barbarian state against another
- —武力侵攻military invasion
- —物理攻撃physical attack (as opposed to supernatural)
- —一斉攻撃general attack; all-out attack; attack on all fronts; onslaught; fusillade
- —反転攻勢counteroffensive
- —攻撃対象target of attack
- —攻防一体unity of offense and defense; integration of attack and defense
- —攻撃衝動aggressive impulse; aggressive drive; aggressive instinct
- —側面攻撃flank attack; flanking maneuver; indirect approach; attacking a problem from another angle; attacking an issue from the side
- —予防攻撃preventive attack; preemptive strike
- —特攻隊長leader of a special attack unit (esp. kamikaze units in WWII); person who charges in first against opponents (esp. in a bōsōzoku gang)
- —攻撃開始線line of departure
- —首位攻防戦game or series of games between the first and second place teams
- —放射能攻撃radiological attack
- —特別攻撃隊special attack unit; suicide squad; kamikaze unit
- —真珠湾攻撃Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)