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墨 — 14 strokes ／ Radical「土」

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3Junior high level ／ 14 strokes ／ Radical「土」
On
ボクぼく · boku
Kun
すみsumi
Meaning
India ink

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

黒 "black" with 土 "earth": soot pressed into a black cake — India ink.

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onボクぼくboku筆墨ひつぼく白墨はくぼく遺墨いぼく
Kunすみsumi墨すみ墨絵すみえ眉墨まゆずみ

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 墨汁ぼくじゅう

    India ink

  • 水墨画すいぼくが

    ink painting

More words with this kanji

  • 翰墨かんぼく
  • 墨瀋ぼくしん

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

水墨(すいぼく)画(が)の展示(てんじ)を見(み)た。

I saw an exhibition of ink paintings.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

水墨画墨汁水墨画墨水water汁soup画pictur…坑pit埋bury塊lump塗paint墳tomb卜divina…木tree目eye朴plain牧pastur…
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Compound

Map of radical 土Map of reading ボクAll maps

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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