却

却 — instead, on the contrary, rather

JLPT: JLPT N1
Strokes: 7
Taught in: Secondary school
Frequency: #959 most common

Readings

On'yomi came with the character from Chinese; kun'yomi is the native Japanese word it was borrowed for. A dot marks where okurigana takes over, a hyphen marks a prefix or suffix position.

On'yomi: きゃく kyaku
Kun'yomi: かえ.って kae.tte

しりぞ.く shirizo.ku

しりぞ.ける shirizo.keru

Example words for this kanji are being written.