Japanese Kanji
抑yoku
repress · well · now
Secondary school · JLPT N1 · 7 strokes
Repress, well, now, in the first place, push, shove, press, seal, do in spite of.
抑 is part of the secondary school jōyō kanji — the full set of characters used in everyday Japanese. In the JLPT proficiency test it appears at N1 (advanced) level. With 7 strokes, this character appears in numerous compound words throughout written Japanese.
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