# 解 — Solve

Frequency rank 142 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Common in published Japanese. A handful of these and real text starts to open.

More common than 少 (Few), less common than 野 (Field).

- On’yomi: かい、げ
- Kun’yomi: と、わか
- Radical: 角 Horn (Kangxi 148)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX

The sword goes in at the one angle that will lift the ridged horn off the cow's skull, and the carcass falls open along every seam.

In words:

- 解く とく — to unfasten
- 解ける とける — to come untied,to come apart
- 解釈 かいしゃく — explanation,interpretation

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