卓 means “table, eminent, excel”

たく · taku

Also: desk, high

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

タク

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 8 strokes

The story

A little marker (⺊) set on top of early (早): picture the first one up, standing above the rest. 卓 is both eminent, as in 卓越, and a raised table: 卓球 is table tennis, 食卓 the dining table, and 電卓 a desktop calculator.

Used in 卓球 (takkyuu, table tennis), 食卓 (shokutaku, dining table), and 電卓 (dentaku, calculator)

More from Crests & Honors

• 銘 inscription
• 冠 crown
• 勲 meritorious deed
• 紋 crest
• 碑 monument
• 傑 outstanding
• 褒 praise
• 璽 imperial seal
• 標 mark
• 徴 sign
• 功 merit
• 称 name

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.