撥 - brush up, reject, exclude

to hit (e.g. with a car); to knock down

Javanese long pepper (Piper retrofractum)

bigeye tuna (edible fish, Thunnus obesus)

water repellency

pick-guard (protective patch on a biwa, etc.)

plucked string instrument

pick-guard (protective patch on a shamisen, etc.)

taking a cut (of someone else's money); taking a rake-off; pocketing a kickback; skimming (a percentage of the profits, proceeds, etc.)

Edo-period hairstyle for the common man (the entire head shaved just above the ear, with the remainder tied up in the back)

pushing away food one does not want to eat with one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

rejected goods; sorted-out goods

sound made by a plectrum