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棒 — 12 strokes ／ Radical「木」

道
5Elementary year 6 ／ 12 strokes ／ Radical「木」
On
ボウぼう · bō
Kun
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Meaning
stick; rod; pole

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

木 "wood" plus 奉 "to hold up in both hands"; a long piece of wood held in the hands — hence "rod."

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onボウぼうbō棒グラフぼうグラフ棒読みぼうよみ鉄棒てつぼう

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 鉄棒てつぼう

    horizontal bar; iron rod

  • 棒読みぼうよみ

    monotonous reading

More words with this kanji

  • 泥棒どろぼう
  • 麺棒めんぼう
  • 梶棒かじぼう
  • 篦棒べらぼう
  • 天秤棒てんびんぼう
  • 棍棒こんぼう

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

鉄棒(てつぼう)でぶら下(さ)がって遊(あそ)んだ。

I played hanging from the horizontal bar.

IDIOMS

Idioms with this kanji

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

棒読み鉄棒棒読to rea…鉄iron机desk枚counte…染to dye株stump模model亡to die忘to for…乏scarce戊fifth…矛halber…
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 木Map of reading ボウAll maps

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

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