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迫

Urge
Stroke count: 8

Readings

On readingハク
Kun readingせま.る

Verbs with «迫»

迫る圧迫する
  1. stage elevator
  2. trapdoor

Popular Usage

迫る圧迫脅迫

Radicals and components

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Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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white (白) · dove · road (辶)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 300

Compound words

彼の演説は気迫に欠けていた。
His speech was lacking in soul.tatoeba
薄暮れが迫った。
The twilight came on.tatoeba
刀を抜けと迫る。
Sukeroku presses Ikyu to draw his sword.wiki
反対の西口は住宅が迫る。
Many houses are located in front of its west entrance.wiki

Real voices: how native speakers say it

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.

俺が決めてやるという気迫に満ちていた
おれがきめてやるというきはくにみちていたHe was brimming with the resolve to finish it himself.
我々の個人的自己に迫るものでなければならない。
われわれのこじんてきじこにせまるものでなければならない。It must be something that presses on our individual selves.
猛烈な勢力の台風が迫ってくる
もうれつなせいりょくのたいふうがせまってくるA violent typhoon is approaching.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

8 strokes

Press, close in. ⻌ (movement) + 白 — coming right up close.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 迫

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step