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不 — negative, non-, bad

ふ不 negative

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 4 strokes

U+4E0D Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #101 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1302 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

negative
non-
bad
ugly
clumsy

word

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

不(ふ) fu not 不(ふ) 安(あん) fuan anxiety 不(ふ) 思(し) 議(ぎ) fushigi mysterious 不(ふ) 足(そく) fusoku insufficiency 不(ふ) 明(めい) fumei unknown 不(ふ) 動(どう) 産(さん) fudousan real estate 不(ふ) 満(まん) fuman dissatisfaction 不(ふ) 正(せい) fusei injustice

Appears in idioms

不可思議四字熟語

negative, possible, think, deliberation

前後不覚四字熟語

before, after, negative, memorize

Stroke order

1
2
3
4

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

いち一 one #1

丿 slash

丨 pole

Used as component in (2)

いな否 negate はい杯 counter for cupfuls

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.