抜ける

ぬける · nukeru · JLPT N3 · verb-ichidan

to come out

🦷 Sounds like nuke-eru: nuke it and it drops out, gone, left out

抜 has the hand radical 扌, meaning to pull out by hand. 抜く (nuku) means you pull something out. 抜ける means it comes out on its own: a tooth or hair falls out, a word is left out of a sentence.

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