葆 — 12 strokes ／ Radical「艹」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 12 strokes ／ Radical「艹」
- On
- ホウ・ホほう・ほ · hō · ho
- Kun
- し.げるshi.geru
- Meaning
- to grow thick; to keep
Stroke order
Origin
Grass 艹 with 保, to keep, as phonetic: grass growing thick; by extension, to preserve.
Compounds
- 葆光ほうこう
keeping one’s light hidden
- 葆つたもつ
to keep
Example
葆光の徳を守る。
They keep to the virtue of hiding their light.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)