Japanese symbol for “expulsion”
駆逐
くちく
Romaji: kuchiku
expulsion; driving out; driving away; extermination
In Japanese, expulsion is 駆逐, read くちく (kuchiku).
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Meanings
- n, vs, vt expulsion; driving out; driving away; extermination
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “expulsion”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 追放 | ついほう tsuihou | exile; banishment; eviction |
| 破門 | はもん hamon | expulsion (of a pupil) |
| 放逐 | ほうちく houchiku | expulsion; ousting; ejection |
| 排斥 | はいせき haiseki | rejection; expulsion; boycott |
| 除名 | じょめい jomei | striking off a name; dropping a name (from a list); expulsion |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 駆使 | くし kushi | using freely; making full use of; having a good command of |
| 駆動 | くどう kudou | drive; driving (force) |
| 駆ける | かける kakeru | to run; to dash; to race |
| 駆け引き | かけひき kakehiki | bargaining; haggling |
| 駆除 | くじょ kujo | extermination (of pests); eradication; stamping out (e.g. a social evil) |
| 逐一 | ちくいち chikuichi | one by one; in detail; minutely |
| 逐次 | ちくじ chikuji | successively; one after another; sequentially |
| 放逐 | ほうちく houchiku | expulsion; ousting; ejection |
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.