盍 — 10 strokes ／ Radical「皿」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 10 strokes ／ Radical「皿」
- On
- コウこう · kō
- Kun
- おお.う・なんぞō.u · nanzo
- Meaning
- to cover; why not…?
Stroke order
Origin
Vessel 皿 under a lid: to cover a vessel; borrowed for the phrase “why not…?”
Compounds
- 盍ぞなんぞ
why not…?
- 蓋ふた
a lid, the related character
Example
盍ぞ早く帰らざる。
Why not go home the sooner?
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)