# 抜 — Pull Out

Frequency rank 471 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 装 (Attire), less common than 黒 (Black).

- On’yomi: ばつ、はつ
- Kun’yomi: ぬ
- Radical: 手 Hand (Kangxi 64)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

Fingers on the left pull out a friend on the right — your fingers pull out a friend from a hole, rescuing them by yanking them free.

In words:

- 抜く ぬく — to extract,to omit,to surpass,to draw out,to unplug
- 抜ける ぬける — to come out,to fall out,to be omitted
- 抜かす ぬかす — to omit;to leave out

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