撥

Meaning

撥 centers on a hand action that flicks or pushes something away: brushing up, rejecting, excluding, or eliminating. The bone plectrum sense is a specialized tool that plucks or flicks strings, fitting the same core idea of a quick, decisive hand motion.

• 撥ばち

  plectrum (for a shamisen, biwa, etc.); pick

• 撥ねるはねる
  N2

  to hit (e.g. with a car); to knock down

• ピンを撥ねるピンをはねる

  to get a rakeoff; to get a kickback; to take a kickback

• 撥ねかすはねかす

  to splash; to splatter

• 撥ね付けるはねつける

  to flatly refuse; to reject; to spurn

• 撥ね箸はねばし

  pushing away food one does not want to eat with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

• 撥ね荷はねに

  rejected goods; sorted-out goods

• 撥ね釣瓶はねつるべ

  water bucket suspended from a weighted rod

• 撥ね飛ばすはねとばす

  to send (something) flying; to splatter

• 撥弦楽器はつげんがっき

  plucked string instrument

• 撥水はっすい

  water repellency

• 撥油はつゆ

  oil repellency

• 撥皮ばちかわ

  pick-guard (protective patch on a shamisen, etc.)

• 撥鏤ばちる

  engraving of lacquer-stained ivory (popular during the Tang dynasty)

• 撥面ばちめん

  pick-guard (protective patch on a biwa, etc.)

• 撥音はつおん

  syllabic nasal (in Japanese)

• 撥音ばちおと

  sound made by a plectrum

• 撥音便はつおんびん

  nasal sound change (generation of the mora 'n', primarily from verb stems ending in 'i')

• 撥鬢ばちびん

  Edo-period hairstyle for the common man (the entire head shaved just above the ear, with the remainder tied up in the back)

• 畢撥擬ひはつもどき

  Javanese long pepper (Piper retrofractum)

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