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抜く

ぬく

to pull out

Mnemonic

You get a grip on it and the whole thing comes away in your hand, cork and all. The same nuke ぬく as 抜ける, except that this time a hand did it, and the bottle is open: ぬく.

Worth knowing

取り出す とりだす is taking a thing out of somewhere. 抜く is pulling it free of whatever was holding it.

Built from

pull out, extract
扌 a hand on the left pulling, and whatever it had hold of coming away with it.

Words sharing these kanji

to fall out, to leave

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