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excel in
Stroke count: 17

Readings

On readingテキ、タク
Kun readingぬ.く、ぬき.んでる
Grade 9KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. excel in
    行成は蔵人頭に抜擢された。Yukinari, on the other hand, was chosen to serve as Kurodo gashira (Head of the Imperial Secretariat).wiki
  2. surpass
  3. pull out
  4. select
    彼女はその職に特別に抜擢された。She was especially selected for the post.tatoeba
    老中抜擢の端緒であったという。This was the start of Tadachika's being selected as Roju.wiki
  5. outstandingRtK

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These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

社長の資質があると見込まれて抜擢された
しゃちょうのししつがあるとみこまれてばってきされたHe was picked out because they saw the makings of a company president in him.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

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