撲 — strike, hit, beat

もう撲 strike

もう

U+64B2 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1283 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1932 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

strike
hit
beat
slap

Readings

On'yomi: ぼく boku

word

もう mou

相(す) 撲(もう) sumou sumo wrestling

ぼく boku On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

撲(ぼく) 滅(めつ) bokumetsu eradication 打(だ) 撲(ぼく) daboku blow

Words by frequency and grade

3 words

Each dot is a word containing 撲: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 1 word has no frequency rank; it sits in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

扌 hand (left form)

菐 dense brush

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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