pull, tug, jerk, admit
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
二つのチームは、全力でロープを引っ張りました。
Futatsu no chiimu wa, zenryoku de roopu wo hippparimashita.
The two teams pulled the rope with everything they had.
親子綱引きの時間でした。
Oyako tsunahiki no jikan deshita.
It was time for the parent-child tug-of-war.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0