捉
捉 — chak
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 잡을 착
- Romanization
- chak
- English
- grasp, clutch; catch, seize
- Mandarin
- zhuō
- Japanese on'yomi
- ソク, サク
- Japanese kun'yomi
- とら.える
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,976 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 手 (64, 7 residual)
- Unicode
- U+6349
Words written with 捉
- 포착捕捉 요점이나 요령을 얻음
- 피착하다被捉 남에게 붙잡히다
- 착거하다捉去 사람을 붙잡아 가다
- 착래하다捉來 사람을 붙잡아 오다
- 착수하다捉囚 죄인을 잡아서 가두다
- 착송하다捉送 사람을 붙잡아서 보내다
- 집착執捉 죄인을 붙잡음.
- 활착活捉 산 채로 잡음.
- 착치捉致 사람을 붙잡아 옴.
- 대착大捉 고기 따위가 많이 잡히는 일.
- 착현捉現 예전에, 죄인을 잡아서 대령하던 일.
- 빙공착영憑空捉影 허공에 의지하여 그림자를 잡는다는 뜻으로, 말과 행동이 이루어질 가망이 없음을 비유적으로 이르는 말
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 捉
- 捉えるとらえる to catch; to capture; to seize
- 捕捉ほそく capture; seizure; prehension
- 把捉はそく grasping (a meaning)
- 捕捉剤ほそくざい scavenger
- 捉え方とらえかた interpretation; perception; understanding
- 猿猴捉月えんこうそくげつ trying to reach above one's station and failing; trying to accomplish something beyond one's abilities and failing; monkey catching (a reflection of) the moon (in the water)
- 心を捉えるこころをとらえる to impress; to charm
- 捉えどころとらえどころ key to understanding; point (e.g. of an argument)
- 意味を捉えるいみをとらえる to grasp the meaning
- 言葉尻を捉えることばじりをとらえる to pounce on someone's words; to cavil at someone's words; to trip someone up with their own words
- 捉えどころのないとらえどころのない hard to figure out; elusive; slippery
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)