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茫 — 9 strokes ／ Radical「艹」

道
1University / general (hardest) ／ 9 strokes ／ Radical「艹」
On
ボウぼう · bō
Kun
とお.いtō.i
Meaning
vast and vague

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Grass 艹 with 汒 as phonetic: grass spreading wide without end, hence vast and vague.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 茫漠ぼうばく

    vast and vague

  • 茫然ぼうぜん

    dumbfounded

More words with this kanji

  • 渺茫びょうぼう

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

茫漠(ぼうばく)たる原野(げんや)が広(ひろ)がる。

A vast, featureless plain spreads out.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

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CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 艹Map of reading ボウAll maps

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

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