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膨 — 16 strokes ／ Radical「月」

道
3Junior high level ／ 16 strokes ／ Radical「月」
On
ボウぼう · bō
Kun
ふく.らむ・ふく.れるfuku.ramu · fuku.reru
Meaning
swell; expand

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

月 "flesh" with 彭: the body swelling — to swell, to expand.

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onボウぼうbō膨大ぼうだい
Kunふくらむfukuramu膨らむふくらむ膨らみふくらみ
Kunふくれるfukureru膨れるふくれる青膨れあおぶくれ

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 膨張ぼうちょう

    expansion

  • 膨大ぼうだい

    enormous

More words with this kanji

  • 膨脹ぼうちょう

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

資料(しりょう)が膨大(ぼうだい)な量(りょう)になった。

The materials grew to an enormous volume.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

膨大膨張膨大big張to str…肝liver胞sac胎womb胆gall…膜membra…乏scarce妨obstru…房tassel某a cert…謀plot
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 月Map of reading ボウAll maps

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

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