掻

Meaning

掻 centers on scraping or drawing a tool across a surface: scratching an itch, raking leaves, combing hair, or paddling through water. The behead sense is a rare, violent extension of the same scraping action.

• 掻くかく
  N3

  to scratch

• 足掻くあがく
  N1

  to paw (at) the ground

• 掻きかき

  stroke (swimming); arm stroke

• 掻き立てるかきたてる

  to stir up; to poke (the fire); to beat (an egg)

• 足掻きあがき

  struggling; pawing (e.g. horses' hooves)

• 引っ掻き反射ひっかきはんしゃ

  scratch reflex

• 引っ掻き回すひっかきまわす

  to rummage through; to ransack (e.g. a drawer)

• 掻い掘りかいぼり

  draining a pond, lake or ditch (esp. to remove fish, purify water, etc.)

• 掻い摘むかいつまむ

  to sum up; to summarize; to summarise

• 掻い撫でかいなで

  superficial (knowledge, learning, etc.); shallow

• 掻い暮れかいくれ

  (not) at all; wholly; entirely; completely; totally

• 掻い潜るかいくぐる

  to slip through; to slip past; to evade

• 掻い繰るかいくる

  to haul in hand over hand

• 掻い込むかいこむ

  to carry under the arm

• 掻き付くかきつく

  to cling to

• 掻き分けるかきわける

  to push aside; to push one's way through

• 掻き切るかききる

  to cut; to slit; to slash

• 掻き均すかきならす

  to smooth out; to rake

• 掻き壊すかきこわす

  to scratch open (a wound); to scratch off (a scab)

• 掻き揚げ城かきあげじろ

  small castle with a simple earthen-walled moat

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