匍 — 9 strokes ／ Radical「勹」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 9 strokes ／ Radical「勹」
- On
- ホ
- Kun
- は.う
- Meaning
- to crawl
Origin
A wrapping 勹 with 甫 as phonetic: to go forward on one's belly.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 匍匐ほふく
crawling
- 匍匐前進ほふくぜんしん
crawling advance
Example
兵士が匍匐前進で草原を進んだ。
The soldiers crawled forward across the grassland.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)