徹
徹 — Penetrate
penetrate, clear, pierce, strike home, sit up (all night)
On’yomiテツ (tetsu)
Kun’yomi—
Stroke order (15 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 徹
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 徹底 | てってい tettei | thoroughness; completeness; consistency |
| 徹夜 | てつや tetsuya | staying up all night |
| 徹する | てっする tessuru | to penetrate; to sink in; to devote oneself (to) |
| 徹底的 | てっていてき tetteiteki | thorough; exhaustive; complete |
| 冷徹 | れいてつ reitetsu | cool-headed; level-headed; hard-headed |
| 不徹底 | ふてってい futettei | inconsistent; illogical; unconvincing |
Study notes
徹 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 15 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #968 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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