Meaning & readings
pressure, push, overwhelm, oppress, dominate
On’yomi アツ、エン、オウ
Kun’yomi お.す、へ.す、おさ.える、お.さえる
Origin
This character combines two components to express the idea of pressure. The top part, which looks like a cliff or roof-like shape, suggests something heavy or imposing from above. Below it sits earth or soil, representing something solid being pressed down. Together, the image of weight bearing down on solid ground captures the meaning of pressure, pushing force, or oppression—when something heavy presses on what is underneath, it overpowers or dominates it.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Components
- 厂
- 土
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 5
- Kangxi radical
- 32
- Grade
- Grade 5 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #718 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+05727